David F. Garcia
Arsenio Rodriguez And The Transnational Flows Of Latin Popular Music
Book
(Temple University Press 133864),
Released 2006;
Editor's Pick:
Perhaps the most detailed text about one of the most influential composer and bandleaders in Latin music.
Highly Recommended.
Notes from the book's jacket:
Arsenio Rodriguez was responsible for crucial developments in Latin music's important musical genres, SON MONTUNO, MAMBO and SALSA, but his accomplishments have never received the attention they deserve. This fascinating book explores Arsenio's place in the trajectory of Cuban music from pre-revolutionary Cuba to New York, Los Angeles and beyond, giving Arsenio his due not only as an extraordinarily creative musician but as a life-long participant in anti-racist struggles. It is a model of interdisciplinary scholarship, giving equal attention to the historical context and musicological structures that gave Arsenio's music its power and meaning - Deborah Pacini, Director of American and Latino Studies Programs and Associate Professor of Anthropology, Tufts University.
A major contribution to the study of Latin American music and music in general. Its audience will range from scholars to the general public interested in AFRO-CUBAN music and popular music traditions, especially those of Latin America and related music in the U.S. Rodriguez is very deserving of a book on his musical life and stylistic innovation of the Cuban Son and its indelible effect on Latin music. Garcia pays homage and respect to his subject and has developed some extremely rich data and intricate analysis on the musical legacy of Arsenio Rodriguez - Steven Loza, University of Los Angeles, and former Director, Arts of the Americas Institute, University of New Mexico.
An engaging, timely, and thoroughly researched work that explores the accomplishments and legacy of one of Cuba's most important musicians and bandleaders, Arsenio Rodriguez Scull. Garcia's book fills a void in Cuban and Latin American popular music scholarship, painstakingly outlining the details of Arsenio's strong AFRICAN PLAYING STYLE, and how his musical creations were deeply tied to race, class, and cubanidad. No other book so skillfully combines biography with a convincing cultural analysis of how music both emerges from and contest specific ideologies of race, class, and national identity. This book promises to be the definitive biography of Arsenio in the English language--comprehensive and unstinting in its attention to detail. - Katherin Hagedorn, Associate Professor of Music at Pomona College, and author Divine Utterances: The Performance of Afro-Cuban Santeria.
David F. Garcia is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Softcover, 210 pages. (DR, 2006-08-28)
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