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Book SynopsisIn
Musicians in Transit Matthew B. Karush examines the careers of seven major twentieth-century Argentine popular musicians in the transnational context to show how their engagement with foreign genres, ideologies, and audiences helped them create innovative new music and shape new Argentine cultural and national identities.
Trade Review"Thanks to his command of cultural, social, and historical contexts and deftness in illuminating and interpreting the dialectic between musicians and the forces of transnationalism and globalization, [Karush] succeeds in presenting a nuanced, sweeping view of Argentinian music history that also reads as an engaging narrative. . . . Highly recommended." -- G. R. Innes * Choice *
“... Karush ultimately presents a very interesting interpretation of Argentine popular musicians in a transnational context and offers a compelling depiction of the intricacies and complexities involved in the construction of any national identity.” -- Vera Wolkowicz * Music and Letters *
"Karush tells a story of artistic individual agency and transnational influences that avoids simplistic conclusions about cultural imperialism and authenticity. . . . This is an ambitious work that successfully explores uncharted territory in Argentine history." -- Natalia Milanesio * American Historical Review *
"Expertly crafted. . . . [
Musicians in Transit] deserves to be read by anyone interested in the development of Latin American identity in the twentieth century." -- Brian Bockelman * The Americas *
“It is impossible to do justice to this complex book in a brief review.
Musicians in Transit is an ambitious exploration of globalization, national identity, and ethnicity viewed through the multidimensional lens of these seven musicians….The book will have broad cross-disciplinary appeal and, like its subject, transnational relevance and impact.” -- Deborah Jakubs * Hispanic American Historical Review *
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Musicians in Transit constitutes an excellent addition that will surely establish itself as a reference for the study of twentieth-century Argentine popular music and its relationship with nation-ness.” -- Ignacio Aguiló * Journal of Latin American Studies *
"This book commands attention both for its creativeness and daring. . . . This book will be read with profit and enthusiasm not only by popular music specialists and students of Latin American musical culture, but anyone interested in cultural industries broadly conceived." -- Sean Bellaviti * Bulletin of Latin American Research *
"A lucid and carefully articulated contribution. . . . The book resonates with recent musicological scholarship that is particularly concerned with the roles that media and mediators play in the articulation of local musical identities in South America. . . . This is a book rich with detail and lucid insight, and is essential reading for scholars of Argentine popular music." -- Michael S. O’Brien * Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *
“
Musicians in Transit is an important contribution to both the history of Argentine popular music and to the study of the transnational logic of cultural industries, which Karush had brilliantly explored in his previous book on the influence of radio, cinema, and tango on the birth of Peronism.” -- Esteban Buch * Latin American Research Review *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Note about Online Resources xi
Introduction 1
1. Black in Buenos Aires: Oscar Alemán and the Transnational History of Swing 15
2. Argentines into Latins: The Jazz Histories of Lalo Schifrin and Gato Barbieri 39
3. Cosmopolitan Tango: Astor Piazzolla at Home and Abroad 70
4. The Sound of Latin America: Sandro and the Invention of
Balada 108
5. Indigenous Argentina and Revolutionary Latin America: Mercedes Sosa and the Multiple Meanings of Folk Music 142
6. The Music of Globalization: Gustavo Santaollalo and the Production of
Rock Latino 179
Conclusion 216
Notes 221
Bibliography 249
Index 263
