Music In Puerto Rico

Author : Donald Thompson
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002-02-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781461669876

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Music in Puerto Rico by Donald Thompson Pdf

Puerto Rico's rich musical history is chronicled in Donald Thompson's translated texts, a history that is often unavailable to those who do not read Spanish easily. Music in Puerto Rico details the Caribbean island's musical roots from Christopher Columbus' second voyage to the New World in the late fifteenth century to twentieth century developments. It explores a multitude of topics, including native instruments, the introduction of music in schools, folk traditions, the legendary salsa, urban pop, and commercial music. The volume also examines musical differences in various regions, including mountains and plains. Documents from historical figures such as Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas and Manuel Alonso have been excerpted and translated. In addition, Music in Puerto Rico explores the various modes of musical expression that have been unique to different geographic regions, including the mountains and the plains. The documented texts also simplify bibliographic search, as many of the anthology's original sources are difficult to locate. Thompson's book provides a glimpse into a society in which cultures intersect and in which magic was born in the form of the popular salsa. Musicians, musicologists, historians, students of Hispanic culture, and anyone interested in the musical foundations of Puerto Rican life will find Music in Puerto Rico a valuable resource.

Author : Erinn Banting
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0778793346

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Puerto Rico - The People and the Culture by Erinn Banting Pdf

Introduces the history, religions, holidays and festivals, arts, sports, languages, and literature of Puerto Rico.

Author : Donald Thompson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780810839144

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Music in Puerto Rico by Donald Thompson Pdf

Thompson (emeritus music, U. of Puerto Rico) compiles a small sampling of the writing about music on the Caribbean island, most in Spanish, from conquest accounts of aboriginal music in the 1490s century to popular music critics in the 1990s. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Ruth Glasser
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1997-05-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520208902

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My Music Is My Flag by Ruth Glasser Pdf

Puerto Rican music in New York is given center stage in Ruth Glasser's original and lucid study. Exploring the relationship between the social history and forms of cultural expression of Puerto Ricans, she focuses on the years between the two world wars. Her material integrates the experiences of the mostly working-class Puerto Rican musicians who struggled to make a living during this period with those of their compatriots and the other ethnic groups with whom they shared the cultural landscape. Through recorded songs and live performances, Puerto Rican musicians were important representatives for the national consciousness of their compatriots on both sides of the ocean. Yet they also played with African-American and white jazz bands, Filipino or Italian-American orchestras, and with other Latinos. Glasser provides an understanding of the way musical subcultures could exist side by side or even as a part of the mainstream, and she demonstrates the complexities of cultural nationalism and cultural authenticity within the very practical realm of commercial music. Illuminating a neglected epoch of Puerto Rican life in America, Glasser shows how ethnic groups settling in the United States had choices that extended beyond either maintenance of their homeland traditions or assimilation into the dominant culture. Her knowledge of musical styles and performance enriches her analysis, and a discography offers a helpful addition to the text.

Author : Catherine Dower
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Music
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173015286932

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Puerto Rican Music Following the Spanish American War by Catherine Dower Pdf

Author : Licia Fiol-Matta
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780822373469

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The Great Woman Singer by Licia Fiol-Matta Pdf

Licia Fiol-Matta traces the careers of four iconic Puerto Rican singers—Myrta Silva, Ruth Fernández, Ernestina Reyes, and Lucecita Benítez—to explore how their voices and performance style transform the possibilities for comprehending the figure of the woman singer. Fiol-Matta shows how these musicians, despite seemingly intractable demands to represent gender norms, exercised their artistic and political agency by challenging expectations of how they should look, sound, and act. Fiol-Matta also breaks with conceptualizations of the female pop voice as spontaneous and intuitive, interrogating the notion of "the great woman singer" to deploy her concept of the "thinking voice"—an event of music, voice, and listening that rewrites dominant narratives. Anchored in the work of Lacan, Foucault, and others, Fiol-Matta's theorization of voice and gender in The Great Woman Singer makes accessible the singing voice's conceptual dimensions while revealing a dynamic archive of Puerto Rican and Latin American popular music.

Author : Frances R. Aparicio
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780819569943

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Listening to Salsa by Frances R. Aparicio Pdf

Winner of the MLA's Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for an outstanding book published in English in the field of Latin American and Spanish literatures and culture (1999) For Anglos, the pulsing beats of salsa, merengue, and bolero are a compelling expression of Latino/a culture, but few outsiders comprehend the music's implications in larger social terms. Frances R. Aparicio places this music in context by combining the approaches of musicology and sociology with literary, cultural, Latino, and women's studies. She offers a detailed genealogy of Afro-Caribbean music in Puerto Rico, comparing it to selected Puerto Rican literary texts, then looks both at how Latinos/as in the US have used salsa to reaffirm their cultural identities and how Anglos have eroticized and depoliticized it in their adaptations. Aparicio's detailed examination of lyrics shows how these songs articulate issues of gender, desire, and conflict, and her interviews with Latinas/os reveal how they listen to salsa and the meanings they find in it. What results is a comprehensive view "that deploys both musical and literary texts as equally significant cultural voices in exploring larger questions about the power of discourse, gender relations, intercultural desire, race, ethnicity, and class."

Author : Donald Thompson,Francis Schwartz
Publisher : La Editorial, UPR
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Music
ISBN : 0847703207

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Concert Life in Puerto Rico, 1957-1992 by Donald Thompson,Francis Schwartz Pdf

Selection of articles and reviews of classical music performances. The work documents this aspect of Puerto Rican cultural and musical history within the indicated timeframe.

Author : Kuss, Malena
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 0292784988

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Music in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Encyclopedic History REANNOUNCE/F05: Volume 2: Performing the Caribbean Experience by Kuss, Malena Pdf

The music of the peoples of South and Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean is treated with unprecedented breadth in this multi-volume work. Taking a sociocultural and human-centered approach, Music in Latin America and the Caribbean gathers the best scholarship from writers all over the world to cover in depth the musical legacies of indigenous peoples, creoles, African descendants, Iberian colonizers, and other immigrant groups that met and mixed in the New World. From these texts, music emerges as the powerful tool that negotiates identities, enacts resistance, performs beliefs, and challenges received aesthetics. More than two decades in the making, this work privileges the perspectives of cultural insiders and emphasizes the role that music plays in human life. Volume 2, Performing the Caribbean Experience, focuses on the reconfiguration of this complex soundscape after the Conquest and on the strategies by which groups from distant worlds reconstructed traditions, assigning new meanings to fragments of memory and welding a fascinating variety of unique Creole cultures. Shaped by an enduring African presence and the experience of slavery and colonization by the Spanish, French, British, and Dutch, peoples of the Caribbean islands and circum-Caribbean territories resorted to the power of music to mirror their history, assert identity, gain freedom, and transcend their experience in lasting musical messages. Essays on pan-Caribbean themes, surveys of traditions, and riveting personal accounts capture the essence of pluralistic and spiritualized brands of creativity through the voices of an unprecedented number of Caribbean authors, including a representative contingent of distinguished Cuban scholars whose work is being published in English translation for the first time in this book. Two CDs with 52 recorded examples illustrate the contributions to this volume.

Author : Barbara Balletto
Publisher : Langenscheidt Publishing Group
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9812349499

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Insight Guides Puerto Rico by Barbara Balletto Pdf

Insight Guides, the world's largest visual travel guide series, in association with Discovery Channel, the world's premier source of nonfiction entertainment, provides more insight than ever. From the most popular resort cities to the most exotic villages, Insight Guides capture the unique character of each culture with an insider's perspective.Inside every Insight Guide you'll find:.Evocative, full-colour photography on every page.Cross-referenced, full-colour maps throughout.A brief introduction including a historical timeline.Lively essays by local writers on the culture, history, and people.Expert evaluations on the sights really worth seeing .Special features spotlighting particular topics of interest.A comprehensive Travel Tips section with listings of the best restaurants, hotels, and attractions, as well as practical information on getting around and advice for travel with children

Author : Petra R. Rivera-Rideau
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780822375258

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Remixing Reggaetón by Petra R. Rivera-Rideau Pdf

Puerto Rico is often depicted as a "racial democracy" in which a history of race mixture has produced a racially harmonious society. In Remixing Reggaetón, Petra R. Rivera-Rideau shows how reggaetón musicians critique racial democracy's privileging of whiteness and concealment of racism by expressing identities that center blackness and African diasporic belonging. Stars such as Tego Calderón criticize the Puerto Rican mainstream's tendency to praise black culture but neglecting and marginalizing the island's black population, while Ivy Queen, the genre's most visible woman, disrupts the associations between whiteness and respectability that support official discourses of racial democracy. From censorship campaigns on the island that sought to devalue reggaetón, to its subsequent mass marketing to U.S. Latino listeners, Rivera-Rideau traces reggaetón's origins and its transformation from the music of San Juan's slums into a global pop phenomenon. Reggaetón, she demonstrates, provides a language to speak about the black presence in Puerto Rico and a way to build links between the island and the African diaspora.

Author : Patricia Levy,Nazry Bahrawi
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0761419705

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Puerto Rico by Patricia Levy,Nazry Bahrawi Pdf

"Explores the geography, history, government, economy, people, and culture of Puerto Rico"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Serafín Méndez-Méndez,Ronald Fernández
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216134343

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Puerto Rico Past and Present by Serafín Méndez-Méndez,Ronald Fernández Pdf

Recently revised to include the latest current events, this classic reference presents the historical, social, political, and cultural aspects of Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico, an island rich with culture and national pride, continues to inspire debate over its designation as a commonwealth of the United States. This updated edition of a popular encyclopedia captures important historical, social, political, and cultural developments of the oldest colony in the world, up to and including the region's current status in relation to the United States. The fascinating work is full of facts, figures, and narratives of the struggles, achievements, and creations of the Puerto Rican people. Essays highlight the area's economy, geography, religion, education, language, radio, television, social media, and films. A focus on the contributions of key historical figures showcase the stories of Ramon Power y Giralt, the first envoy to the Spanish Courts; and Juan Mari Brás, founder of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party, among others. The second edition features recent developments in the commonwealth, including the election of its first female governor, the introduction of the first sales tax, and the financial crisis that shut down schools.

Author : Hugo R Viera-Vargas,Noraliz Ruiz-Caraballo,Errol L Montes-Pizarro,Jaime O Bofill-Calero,Noel Allende-Goitía
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 103215795X

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Made in Puerto Rico by Hugo R Viera-Vargas,Noraliz Ruiz-Caraballo,Errol L Montes-Pizarro,Jaime O Bofill-Calero,Noel Allende-Goitía Pdf

Made in Puerto Rico: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive introduction to the history, culture, and musicology of twentieth and twenty-first century popular music in Puerto Rico. The essays in this volume, written by both local experts and leading scholars, contextualize under-researched areas of Puerto Rican popular music-making in relation to ideologies, aesthetics, and symbolism, and propose new ways of thinking about Puerto Rican musical cultures. A groundbreaking introduction to Puerto Rican musical culture, the volume covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of popular music in Puerto Rico, while also going beyond conventional narratives. Rather than simply providing histories of key genres, these insightful essays focus on the ways in which Puerto Rican musicians reimagine their distinctive musical language as it transmutes from local practices into global expressions. Offering both a survey of Puerto Rican popular music and pathways into deeper critical inquiry, Made in Puerto Rico is an essential resource for scholars and students of music and of Puerto Rican, Caribbean, Latin American, and African Diaspora Studies.

Author : Raymond Torres-Santos
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781475833195

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Music Education in the Caribbean and Latin America by Raymond Torres-Santos Pdf

Music Education in the Caribbean and Latin America: A Comprehensive Guide, features music education from twenty of the most important Latin American countries and Caribbean islands. The islands and countries represented are: Central America: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, México, Nicaragua and Panamá South America: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú, Uruguay and Venezuela Caribbean: Cuba, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and Trinidad and Tobago Each chapter will address some -or all- of the following aspects: the early days, music education in Roman Catholic education/convents, Protestant education, public school/music in the schools, cultural life, music in the community, teacher training, private teaching, conservatory and other institutions, music in university/higher education, instrumental and vocal music, festivals and competitions, teacher education and curriculum development, and professional organizations.