Whose National Music?: Identity, Mestizaje, and Migration in Ecuador

Musical genres, musical instruments, and even songs can often capture the essence of a country's national charter. In Whose National Music?, the first book-length study of Ecuadorian popular music, Ketty Wong explores Ecuadorians' views or their national identity in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries through an examination of the music labels they use. Wong deftly addresses the notion of música national, an umbrella term for Ecuadorian popular songs often defined by the socio-ec...