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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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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 …
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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