Barrio Harmonics: Essays on Chicano / Latino Music
This collection explores Chicano, Mexican, and Cuban musical forms and styles and their transformation in the United States. Employing musical, historical, and sociocultural analyses, Loza addresses issues such as marginality, identity, intercultural conflict and aesthetics, reinterpretation, postnationalism, and mestizaje—the mixing of race and culture—in the production and reception of Chicano/Latino music.

Barrio Harmonics opens with a comprehensive overview that begins with music in the US Southwest in the seventeenth century and ends with the Grammy Awards for Latin American music in the first decade of the twenty-first century. In the following chapters, Loza discusses artists whose music ranges from sones, rancheros, and corridos to Latin jazz, R & B, and rock and roll. Among those he considers in depth are Pancho Sánchez, Lalo Guerrero, Tito Puente, and Los Lobos. He also surveys the contributions of scores of other individuals and groups who have shaped the current contour of Chicano/Latino music. Other topics include the music industry and the impact of globalization, the African diaspora, and Latin American music in Japan. In addition, Loza offers a candid assessment of intellectual capitalism and the void of nonwestern voices in contemporary scholarship.

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Barrio Harmonics: Essays on Chicano / Latino Music
This collection explores Chicano, Mexican, and Cuban musical forms and styles and their transformation in the United States. Employing musical, historical, and sociocultural analyses, Loza addresses issues such as marginality, identity, intercultural conflict and aesthetics, reinterpretation, postnationalism, and mestizaje—the mixing of race and culture—in the production and reception of Chicano/Latino music.

Barrio Harmonics opens with a comprehensive overview that begins with music in the US Southwest in the seventeenth century and ends with the Grammy Awards for Latin American music in the first decade of the twenty-first century. In the following chapters, Loza discusses artists whose music ranges from sones, rancheros, and corridos to Latin jazz, R & B, and rock and roll. Among those he considers in depth are Pancho Sánchez, Lalo Guerrero, Tito Puente, and Los Lobos. He also surveys the contributions of scores of other individuals and groups who have shaped the current contour of Chicano/Latino music. Other topics include the music industry and the impact of globalization, the African diaspora, and Latin American music in Japan. In addition, Loza offers a candid assessment of intellectual capitalism and the void of nonwestern voices in contemporary scholarship.

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Barrio Harmonics: Essays on Chicano / Latino Music

Barrio Harmonics: Essays on Chicano / Latino Music

by Steven Loza
Barrio Harmonics: Essays on Chicano / Latino Music

Barrio Harmonics: Essays on Chicano / Latino Music

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This collection explores Chicano, Mexican, and Cuban musical forms and styles and their transformation in the United States. Employing musical, historical, and sociocultural analyses, Loza addresses issues such as marginality, identity, intercultural conflict and aesthetics, reinterpretation, postnationalism, and mestizaje—the mixing of race and culture—in the production and reception of Chicano/Latino music.

Barrio Harmonics opens with a comprehensive overview that begins with music in the US Southwest in the seventeenth century and ends with the Grammy Awards for Latin American music in the first decade of the twenty-first century. In the following chapters, Loza discusses artists whose music ranges from sones, rancheros, and corridos to Latin jazz, R & B, and rock and roll. Among those he considers in depth are Pancho Sánchez, Lalo Guerrero, Tito Puente, and Los Lobos. He also surveys the contributions of scores of other individuals and groups who have shaped the current contour of Chicano/Latino music. Other topics include the music industry and the impact of globalization, the African diaspora, and Latin American music in Japan. In addition, Loza offers a candid assessment of intellectual capitalism and the void of nonwestern voices in contemporary scholarship.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780895511676
Publisher: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press
Publication date: 04/19/2019
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Steven Loza is a professor of ethnomusicology at UCLA. His publications include Barrio Rhythm: Mexican American Music in Los Angeles and Tito Puente and the Making of Latin Music. He is also the editor of Religion as Art: Guadalupe, Orishas, and Sufi. Loza has been active as a performer and composer and as a producer of major concerts and festivals at UCLA and in Mexico City.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Chapter 1 Chicano/Latino Music, from the Southwest to the Northeast 1

Chapter 2 The Origins of the Cuban Son 52

Chapter 3 From Veracruz to Los Angeles: The Re interpretation of the Son Jarocho 67

Chapter 4 Marginality, Ideology, and the Transformative Expression of a Chicano Musician: Lalo Guerrero 85

Chapter 5 Identity, Nationalism, and Aesthetics among Chicano/Mexicano Musicians in Los Angeles 105

Chapter 6 Latin American Popular Music in Japan and the Issue of International Aesthetics 116

Chapter 7 Identity, Nationalism, the Aesthetics of Latin Music, and the Case of Tito Puente 126

Chapter 8 Poncho Sanchez, Latin Jazz, and the Cuban Son: A Stylistic and Social Analysis 147

Chapter 9 Assimilation, Reclamation, and Rejection of the Nation-State by Chicano Musicians 162

Chapter 10 Cultural, Economic, and Political Implications of the Globalizing Latin Music Industry 179

Chapter 11 From Veracruz to San Francisco: The African Diaspora through Greater Mexico 194

Chapter 12 Challenges to the Euroamericentric Ethnomusicological Canon: Alternatives for Graduate Readings, Theory, and Method 208

About the Author 222

Index 223

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