Oye Como Va!: Hybridity And Identity In Latino Popular Music (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781439900895)

Listen Up! When the New York-born Tito Puente composed "Oye Como Va!" in the 1960s, his popular song was called Latin even though it was a fusion of Afro-Cuban and New York Latino musical influences. A decade later, Carlos Santana, a Mexican immigrant, blended PuenteOCOs tune with rock and roll, which brought it to the attention of national audiences. Like Puente and Santana, Latino/a musicians have always blended musics from their homelands with other sounds in our multicultural society, challenging ideas of what Latin music is or ought to be. Waves of immigrants further complicate the picture as they continue to bring their distinctive musical styles to the U.S.OCofrom merengue and bachata to cumbia and reggaeton.

Ina"Oye Como Va!," Deborah Pacini Hernandez traces the trajectories of various U.S. Latino musical forms in a globalizing world, examining how the blending of Latin music reflects Latino/a American lives connecting across nations. Exploring the simultaneously powerful, vexing, and stimulating relationship between hybridity, music, and identity, a"Oye Como Va!"aasserts that this potent combination is a signature of the U.S. Latino/a experience.

Author: Deborah Pacini Hernandez
ISBN-10: 1439900892
ISBN-13: 9781439900895
Publisher: Temple University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2009
Pages: 238
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 10/15/2009 pg. 78
Choice 06/01/2010