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“What It’s Like to Be Stuck”: Interruption According to Julio Salgado

Rachel Lee Rubin

Rachel Lee Rubin is Professor of American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA, and Director of the Center for the Study of Humanities, Culture, and Society. She has published and taught extensively on popular music, popular culture, and culture of the American left. Rubin is a regular media commentator on popular culture and public affairs. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Creative Activism : Conversations on Music, Film, Literature, and Other Radical Arts

Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

Scholarly Books

...Artist Julio Salgado has repeatedly been described as having come out of the closet twice. Once, in the more-familiar sense, because he is gay; and once because he is undocumented. The two are, in his experience, shaping of each...

Son Jarocho

Randall C. Kohl

Randall C. Kohl

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume IX : Genres: Caribbean and Latin America

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...The son jarocho is a music and dance tradition from the southcentral, or Sotavento, region of the state of Veracruz in Mexico. Within this son jarocho area several subregional styles exist, largely distinguished by instrumentation, tempo...

Hip-hop (Introduction)

Derek Pardue

Derek Pardue

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume IX : Genres: Caribbean and Latin America

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...The pairing of ‘hip-hop’ with ‘Latin America and the Caribbean’ may conjure a contemporary version of what cultural studies scholar Dick Hebdige (1987) called ‘cut ‘n’ mix’ (since 2004, for example, reggaeton, a hybrid of rap, reggae...

Son (Mexico)

Daniel E. Sheehy

Daniel E. Sheehy

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Randall C. Kohl

Randall C. Kohl

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume IX : Genres: Caribbean and Latin America

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...Sixty percent of Mexican folk music, according to Mexican folklorist Vicente T. Mendoza (1894–1964), is derived from the music performed in tonadillas (also, tonadillas escénicas), local theater pieces that were popular around the turn...

José Alfredo Jiménez

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...Within the ranchera genre of Mexican music, José Alfredo Jiménez stood in a special cohort of incredibly prolific and dynamic songwriters. Jiménez was born in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico in 1926 and began his professional musical career...

Jorge Negrete

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...As a pivotal figure in the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema, Jorge Negrete participated in the entertainment industries of both the United States and his native Mexico. Negrete was born in 1911 in Guanajuato, Mexico. His father was a general...

Indita

Brenda M. Romero

Brenda M. Romero

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume VIII : Genres: North America

The Continuum International, 2012

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...Literally, ‘Indian maiden,’ the term indita is a diminutive form that is applied to a song genre that was popularized in Mexican musical plays and entertainments during the post-colonial era. Some survived in New Mexico, where...

Juan Gabriel

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...Known as El Divo de Juarez, Juan Gabriel developed an eccentric style that propelled him to international fame and a position as one of the most important Mexican singers and songwriters. Born in 1950 in Mexico, Gabriel was was part...

Matachines

Brenda M. Romero

Brenda M. Romero

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume VIII : Genres: North America

The Continuum International, 2012

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...Matachines is a contemporary ceremonial dance drama with an ancient historical trajectory that survives in the southwestern United States and in many places throughout Latin America. It features two lines of dancers and a number of key...