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Improvisation In Latin Dance Music: History And Style, Peter L. Manuel
Improvisation In Latin Dance Music: History And Style, Peter L. Manuel
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Latin dance music constitutes one of the most dynamic and sophisticated urban popular music traditions in the Americas. Improvisation plays an important role in this set of genres, and its styles are sufficiently distinctive, complex, and internally significant as to merit book-length treatment along the lines of Paul Berliner's volume Thinking in Jazz (1994). To date, however, the subject of Latin improvisation has received only marginal and cursory analytical treatment, primarily in recent pedagogical guidebooks and videos. While a single chapter such as this can hardly do justice to the subject, an attempt will be made here to sketch some …
Striking The Rock: Confronting Gender Equality In South Africa, Penelope Andrews
Striking The Rock: Confronting Gender Equality In South Africa, Penelope Andrews
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Availability Of Domestic Violence Services For Latinas In New York State, Preliminary Report, Jenny Rivera
Availability Of Domestic Violence Services For Latinas In New York State, Preliminary Report, Jenny Rivera
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Gender Politics In Caribbean Popular Music: Consumer Perspectives And Academic Interpretation, Peter L. Manuel
Gender Politics In Caribbean Popular Music: Consumer Perspectives And Academic Interpretation, Peter L. Manuel
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Chutney And Indo-Trinidadian Cultural Identity, Peter L. Manuel
Chutney And Indo-Trinidadian Cultural Identity, Peter L. Manuel
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Since the early 1980s Indian diasporic communities have attained sufficient size, affluence, self-awareness and generational distance from South Asia to have created a set of popular music styles that are autonomous and distinctive rather than strictly derivative of Indian models. While the bhangra music of British Punjabis has attracted some scholarly and journalistic attention, chutney, a syncretic IndoCaribbean popular music and dance idiom, is little known outside its own milieu. This article constitutes a preliminary socio-musical study of chutney.
Representations Of New York City In Latin Music, Peter L. Manuel
Representations Of New York City In Latin Music, Peter L. Manuel
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