Full Description
Made in Puerto Rico: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive introduction to the history, culture, and musicology of 20th and 21st 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.
Contents
Prologue Introduction: The embodied soundscape of popular music studies in Puerto Rico PART I: The invention of the popular in Puerto Rican music Section introduction: The invention of the popular in Puerto Rican music 1 What is popular in Puerto Rican music? Music and musiking as construction and affirmation of the self 2 Identity debates and symbolic capital: Cultural policies around traditional Puerto Rican music 3 Revisiting Puerto Rican Nueva Canción and its discourse of resistance 4 Cuatro music keeps finding new life: Artists, trends, and contemporary practice 5 Crisis notwithstanding: Metal in Puerto Rico PART II: Music, memory, and history Section introduction 6 Puerto Rican Music in the Afro-diasporic world 7 Plenazos callejeros, embodied memory, and contemporary plena in Puerto Rico, 2005-2012 8 (Re)listening to Gottschalk, Morel Campos, and the jíbaros: Danza's connection with early jazz 9 Record companies in New York City's East Harlem during the first half of the 20th century 10 Bomba: A long invisible practice of Black placemaking in Puerto Rico PART III: Globalization of the Puerto Rican sound Section introduction 11 De Puerto Rico Pa'l Mundo: A brief history of Puerto Rico's reggaeton music scene 12 Between romantic idealism and the tough streets: A look at the development of contemporary salsa in Puerto Rico 13 Made in Puerto Rico, made in Chicago: Diaspora as a method for thinking about Puerto Rican music-dance 14 Queering Menudo: Forever Young 15 Coda: Interview with composer Angélica Negrón
