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Amalgamating Musics

Popular Music and Cultural Hybridity in the Americas

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Musical Migrations

Abstract

Latin American popular musics have long been recognized as one of the more felicitous consequences of racial and cultural mestizaje that followed the otherwise violent and repressive post-1492 encounters between European, Amerindian, and African cultures. Recently, the study of this rich and diverse musical domain and its recent U.S. offshoots has come of age, as the plethora of books and articles being published on the topic within the last few years clearly demonstrates. Although this is certainly cause for celebration, it is also cause for reflection. This chapter seeks to provide an interpretive overview of the geographically dispersed and multilayered cultural and industrial processes that have shaped the development of these musics and their dialogic relationships with the academic field that has grown up around them.1

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Hernández, D.P. (2003). Amalgamating Musics. In: Aparicio, F.R., Jáquez, C.F. (eds) Musical Migrations. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230107441_2

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