Musicians in transit
Subtitle: Argentina and the globalization of popular music
By: Matthew B. Karush
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780822362166; 9780822362364
Subjects: Music and globalization; History and criticism; Music; Music and transnationalism; Musicians
Description: Matthew B. Karush examines the transnational careers of seven of the most influential Argentine musicians of the twentieth century: Afro-Argentine swing guitarist Oscar Aleman, jazz saxophonist Gato Barbieri, composer Lalo Schifrin, tango innovator Astor Piazzolla, balada singer Sandro, folksinger Mercedes Sosa, and rock musician Gustavo Santaolalla. As active participants in the globalized music business, these artists interacted with musicians and audiences in the United States, Europe, and Latin America and contended with genre distinctions, marketing conventions, and ethnic stereotypes. By responding creatively to these constraints, they made innovative music that provided Argentines with new ways of understanding their nation's place in the world. Eventually, these musicians produced expressions of Latin identity that reverberated beyond Argentina, including a novel form of pop ballad, an anti-imperialist, revolutionary folk genre, and a style of rock built on a pastiche of Latin American and global genres. A website with links to recordings by each musician accompanies the book.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-262) and index.
Table of contents: title: Black in Buenos Aires : Oscar Alemán and the transnational history of swing; title: Argentines into Latins : the jazz histories of Lalo Schifrin and Gato Barbieri; title: Cosmopolitan tango : Astor Piazzolla at home and abroad; title: The sound of Latin America : Sandro and the invention of balada; title: Indigenous Argentina and revolutionary Latin America : Mercedes Sosa and the multiple meanings of folk music; title: The music of globalization : Gustavo Santaolalla and the production of rock Latino.