Music, Race, and Nation
Music, Race, and Nation

Author: Peter Wade

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2000-08

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9780226868448

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Long a favorite on dance floors in Latin America, the porro, cumbia, and vallenato styles that make up Colombia's música tropical are now enjoying international success. How did this music—which has its roots in a black, marginal region of the country—manage, from the 1940s onward, to become so popular in a nation that had prided itself on its white heritage? Peter Wade explores the history of música tropical, analyzing its rise in the context of the development of the broadcast media, rapid urbanization, and regional struggles for power. Using archival sources and oral histories, Wade shows how big band renditions of cumbia and porro in the 1940s and 1950s suggested both old traditions and new liberties, especially for women, speaking to a deeply rooted image of black music as sensuous. Recently, nostalgic, "whitened" versions of música tropical have gained popularity as part of government-sponsored multiculturalism. Wade's fresh look at the way music transforms and is transformed by ideologies of race, nation, sexuality, tradition, and modernity is the first book-length study of Colombian popular music.

Music, Race, and Nation
Music, Race, and Nation

Author: Peter Wade

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2000-08

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780226868455

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Long a favorite on dance floors in Latin America, the porro, cumbia, and vallenato styles that make up Colombia's música tropical are now enjoying international success. How did this music—which has its roots in a black, marginal region of the country—manage, from the 1940s onward, to become so popular in a nation that had prided itself on its white heritage? Peter Wade explores the history of música tropical, analyzing its rise in the context of the development of the broadcast media, rapid urbanization, and regional struggles for power. Using archival sources and oral histories, Wade shows how big band renditions of cumbia and porro in the 1940s and 1950s suggested both old traditions and new liberties, especially for women, speaking to a deeply rooted image of black music as sensuous. Recently, nostalgic, "whitened" versions of música tropical have gained popularity as part of government-sponsored multiculturalism. Wade's fresh look at the way music transforms and is transformed by ideologies of race, nation, sexuality, tradition, and modernity is the first book-length study of Colombian popular music.

Lying Up a Nation
Lying Up a Nation

Author: Ronald M. Radano

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2003-11

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 0226701980

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What is black music? For some it is a unique expression of the African-American experience, its soulful vocals and stirring rhythms forged in the fires of black resistance in response to centuries of oppression. But as Ronald Radano argues in this bracing work, the whole idea of black music has a much longer and more complicated history-one that speaks as much of musical and racial integration as it does of separation.

Trad Nation
Trad Nation

Author: Tes Slominski

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 2020-05-05

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0819579297

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Just how "Irish" is traditional Irish music? Trad Nation combines ethnography, oral history, and archival research to challenge the longstanding practice of using ethnic nationalism as a framework for understanding vernacular music traditions. Tes Slominski argues that ethnic nationalism hinders this music's development today in an increasingly multiethnic Ireland and in the transnational Irish traditional music scene. She discusses early 21st century women whose musical lives were shaped by Ireland's struggles to become a nation; follows the career of Julia Clifford, a fiddler who lived much of her life in England, and explores the experiences of women, LGBTQ+ musicians, and musicians of color in the early 21st century.

Metal Music and the Re-imagining of Masculinity, Place, Race and Nation
Metal Music and the Re-imagining of Masculinity, Place, Race and Nation

Author: Karl Spracklen

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2020-05-11

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1838674438

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Metal is a form of popular music. Popular music is a form of leisure. In the modern age, popular music has become part of popular culture, a heavily contested collection of practices and industries that construct place, belonging and power.

Race and Nation
Race and Nation

Author: Paul Spickard

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-07-08

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 1135930600

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Race and Nation is the first book to rigorously compare the various racial and ethnic systems that have developed around the world. The contributors have honed their research and expertise to produce definitive questions in the field, and these.

Race Music
Race Music

Author: Guthrie P. Ramsey

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2004-11-22

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 0520243331

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Covering the vast and various terrain of African American music, this text begins with an account of the author's own musical experiences with family and friends on the South Side of Chicago. It goes on to explore the global influence and social relevance of African American music.

Blackface Nation
Blackface Nation

Author: Brian Roberts

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2017-04-18

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 022645164X

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Introduction -- Carnival -- The Vulgar Republic -- Jim Crow's Genuine Audience -- Black Song -- Meet the Hutchinsons -- Love Crimes -- The Middle-Class Moment -- Culture Wars -- Black America -- Conclusion: Musical without End

Race, Nation, and Religion in the Americas
Race, Nation, and Religion in the Americas

Author: Henry Goldschmidt

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2004-08-12

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0198034024

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This collection of all new essays will explore the complex and unstable articulations of race and religion that have helped to produce "Black," "White," "Creole," "Indian," "Asian," and other racialized identities and communities in the Americas. Drawing on original research in a range of disciplines, the authors will investigate: 1) how the intertwined categories of race and religion have defined, and been defined by, global relations of power and inequality; 2) how racial and religious identities shape the everyday lives of individuals and communities; and 3) how racialized and marginalized communities use religion and religious discourses to contest the persistent power of racism in societies structured by inequality. Taken together, these essays will define a new standard of critical conversation on race and religion throughout the Americas.

Making Race and Nation
Making Race and Nation

Author: Anthony W. Marx

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998-10-28

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780521585903

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Why and how has race become a central aspect of politics during this century? This book addresses this pressing question by comparing South African apartheid and resistance to it, the United States Jim Crow law and protests against it, and the myth of racial democracy in Brazil. Anthony Marx argues that these divergent experiences had roots in the history of slavery, colonialism, miscegenation and culture, but were fundamentally shaped by impediments and efforts to build national unity. In South Africa and the United States, ethnic or regional conflicts among whites were resolved by unifying whites and excluding blacks, while Brazil's longer established national unity required no such legal racial crutch. Race was thus central to projects of nation-building, and nationalism shaped uses of race. Professor Marx extends this argument to explain popular protest and the current salience of issues of race.