The tide was always high
Subtitle: the music of Latin America in Los Angeles
By: edited by Josh Kun
Contributors: Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (Project)
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780520294400
Subjects: Latin Americans; Popular music; Music; Latin American influences; History and criticism
Description: "A collection of essays, interviews, and scholarship exploring the often overlooked history of Latin American musicians and music in the shaping of Los Angeles. Featuring a mix of academics, musicians, and journalists, the book listens to the vibrant Latin American soundtracks of Los Angeles, from Hollywood film sets to recording studios, from vaudeville theaters to Sunset Strip nightclubs, and from Carmen Miranda to Perez Prado and Juan Garcia Esquivel."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: "The Tide was always high is part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, a far reaching project and ambitious exploration of Latin America and Latino art in dialogue with Los Angeles, taking place from September 2017 through January 2018 at more than 70 cultural institutions across Southern California."--Page before title page.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mexican musical theater and movie palaces in downtown Los Angeles before 1950 / by John Koegel; title: Rumba emissaries / by Alexandra T. Vazquez; title: Doing the samba on Sunset Boulevard : Carmen Miranda and the Hollywoodization of Latin American music / by Walter Aaron Clark; title: Walt Disney's Saludos Amigos : Hollywood and the propaganda of authenticity / by Carol A. Hess; title: A century of Latin music at the Hollywood Bowl / by Agustin Gurza; title: Voice of the Xtabay and Bullock's Wilshire : hearing Yma Sumac from Southern California / by Carolina A. Miranda; title: Musical anthropology : a conversation with Elisabeth Waldo / by Gabriel Reyes-Whittaker; title: Esquivel! / by Hans Ulrich Obrist; title: Listening across boundaries : soundings from the Paramount Ballroom and Boyle Heights / by David F. García; title: Studio stories : interviews with session musicians / by Betto Arcos and Josh Kun; title: From Bahianas to the King of Pop... : a speculative history of Brazilian music into Los Angeles / by Brian Cross; title: Heroes and saints / by Luis Alfaro; title: Staging the dance of coalition with versa-style and CONTRA-TIEMPO / by Cindy García; title: Booming bandas of Los Ángeles : gender and the practice of transnational Zapotec philharmonic brass bands / by Xóchitl C. Chávez; title: Caminos y canciones en Los Angeles, CA / by Martha Gonzalez.