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In 1980, the celebrated new wave band Blondie headed to Los Angeles to record a new album, and along with it, the cover "The Tide Is High" originally written by Jamaican legend John Holt. With percussion by Peruvian drummer and veteran L.A. session musician "Alex" Acuna and horns and violins that were pure L.A. mariachi by way of Mexico, "The Tide Is High" demonstrates just one example of the ways in which the music of Los Angeles and Latin America have been intertwined since the birth of the city in the 18th century. The Tide Was Always High gathers together essays, interviews, and analysis from leading academics, artists, journalists, and iconic Latin American musicians to explore the vibrant connections between Los Angeles and Latin America. Published in conjunction with the Getty's Pacific Standard Time LA/LA, the book shows how Latin American musicians and music have helped shape the city's culture, 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.
Contents
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Tide Was Always HighJosh Kun1. Mexican Musical Theater and Movie Palaces in Downtown Los Angeles before 1950John Koegel2. Rumba EmissariesAlexandra T. Vazquez3. Doing the Samba on Sunset Boulevard: Carmen Miranda and the Hollywoodization of Latin American MusicWalter Aaron Clark4. Walt Disney's Saludos Amigos: Hollywood and the Propaganda of AuthenticityCarol A. Hess5. A Century of Latin Music at the Hollywood BowlAgustin Gurza6. Voice of the Xtabay and Bullock's Wilshire: Hearing Yma Sumac from Southern CaliforniaCarolina A. Miranda7. Musical Anthropology: A Conversation with Elisabeth WaldoGabriel Reyes-Whittaker8. Esquivel!Hans Ulrich Obrist9. Listening across Boundaries: Soundings from the Paramount Ballroom and Boyle HeightsDavid F. Garcia10. Studio Stories: Interviews with Session MusiciansBetto Arcos and Josh Kun11. From Bahianas to the King of Pop . . . : A Speculative History of Brazilian Music into Los AngelesBrian Cross12. Heroes and SaintsLuis Alfaro13. Staging the Dance of Coalition with Versa-Style and CONTRA-TIEMPOCindy Garcia14. Booming Bandas of Los Angeles: Gender and the Transnational Zapotec Philharmonic Brass BandsXochitl C. Chavez15. Caminos y Canciones en Los Angeles, CAMartha GonzalezList of ContributorsIndex
