Gentleman troubadours and Andean pop stars
Subtitle: huayno music, media work, and ethnic imaginaries in urban Peru
By: Joshua Tucker
Series: Chicago studies in ethnomusicology; Chicago studies in ethnomusicology
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780226923956; 9780226923963; 9780226923970
Subjects: Radio and music; Huaynos; Popular music; Sound recording industry; History and criticism
Description: Exploring Peru's lively music industry and the studio producers, radio, DJs, and program directors that drive it, this book is a fascinating account of the deliberate development of artistic taste.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : cities, sounds, and circulation in twenty-first century Peru; title: The distributed society; title: The Andean music scene; title: Bohemians, poets, and troubadours; title: The commercial huayno business; title: Finding the huayno people; title: Epilogue : folkloric frames and mass culture.