Musical ImagiNation

U.S-Colombian Identity and the Latin Music Boom

By: Maria Elena Cepeda

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Paperback | 31 January 2010

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Long associated with the pejorative clichés of the drug-trafficking trade and political violence, contemporary Colombia has been unfairly stigmatized. In this pioneering study of the Miami music industry and Miami&;s growing Colombian community, María Elena Cepeda boldly asserts that popular music provides an alternative common space for imagining and enacting Colombian identity. Using an interdisciplinary analysis of popular media, music, and music video, Cepeda teases out issues of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and transnational identity in the Latino/a music industry and among its most renowned rock en español, pop, and vallenato stars.
Musical ImagiNation provides an overview of the ongoing Colombian political and economic crisis and the dynamics of Colombian immigration to metropolitan Miami. More notably, placed in this context, the book discusses the creative work and media personas of talented Colombian artists Shakira, Andrea Echeverri of Aterciopelados, and Carlos Vives. In her examination of the transnational figures and music that illuminate the recent shifts in the meanings attached to Colombian identity both in the United States and Latin America, Cepeda argues that music is a powerful arbitrator of memory and transnational identity.

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"A valuable contribution to Latino/a cultural studies. Cepeda's book expands the traditional boundaries by focusing on Colombianos' transnational identity through popular music. Cepeda's sophisticated, critical, and compelling arguments locate popular music as an alternative to violence in the social imaginaries of and about Colombianos. Erudite, rigorously researched, and accessibly written." Frances R. Aparicio, author of Listening to Salsa

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Colombian Connections: Tracing the Boundaries of the Colombian Musical ImagiNation	p. 1
La crisis colombiana: Contextualizing the Political Moment	p. 18
A Miami Sound Machine: Deconstructing the Latin(o) Music Boom of the Late 1990s	p. 35
Shakira as the Idealized Transnational Citizen: Media Perspectives on Colombianidad in Transition	p. 61
Florecita rockera: Gender and Representation in Latin(o) American Rock and Mainstream Media	p. 87
The Colombian Vallenato acá y allá: Allegory for a Musical ImagiNation	p. 111
The Colombian Transcultural Aesthetic Recipe: Music Video in the "New" American Studies	p. 134
Afterword: U.S.-Colombian Popular Music and Identity: Acknowledging the Transnational in the National	p. 164
Notes	p. 169
References	p. 217
Discography	p. 243
Index	p. 245
About the Author	p. 255
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