![]() | Musical ImagiNation: U.S-Colombian Identity and the Latin Music Boom Subjects: Music -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Popular music -- Florida -- Miami -- History and criticism; Popular music -- Colombia -- History and criticism; Music trade -- Florida -- Miami; Identity (Psychology) and mass media; 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. Cepeda Maria Elena : Mar#237;a Elena Cepeda is Associate Professor of Latina/o Studies at Williams College. |
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