The Tide Was Always High

The Music of Latin America in Los Angeles

Josh Kun (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

252 Seiten

2017
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-29440-0 (ISBN)

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In 1980, the celebrated new wave band Blondie headed to Los Angeles to record a new album, and along with it, the cover "The Tide Is High" originally written by Jamaican legend John Holt. With percussion by Peruvian drummer and veteran L.A. session musician "Alex" Acuna and horns and violins that were pure L.A. mariachi by way of Mexico, "The Tide Is High" demonstrates just one example of the ways in which the music of Los Angeles and Latin America have been intertwined since the birth of the city in the 18th century. The Tide Was Always High gathers together essays, interviews, and analysis from leading academics, artists, journalists, and iconic Latin American musicians to explore the vibrant connections between Los Angeles and Latin America. Published in conjunction with the Getty's Pacific Standard Time LA/LA, the book shows how Latin American musicians and music have helped shape the city's culture, from Hollywood film sets to recording studios, from vaudeville theaters to Sunset Strip nightclubs, and from Carmen Miranda to Perez Prado and Juan Garcia Esquivel.

Josh Kun is an author, journalist, curator, and Professor in the Annenberg School of Communication at USC. He is a winner of the 2006 American Book Award and a 2016 recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant."

Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Tide Was Always High
Josh Kun

1. Mexican Musical Theater and Movie Palaces in Downtown Los Angeles before 1950
John Koegel

2. Rumba Emissaries
Alexandra T. Vazquez

3. Doing the Samba on Sunset Boulevard: Carmen Miranda and the Hollywoodization of Latin American Music
Walter Aaron Clark

4. Walt Disney’s Saludos Amigos: Hollywood and the Propaganda of Authenticity
Carol A. Hess

5. A Century of Latin Music at the Hollywood Bowl
Agustin Gurza

6. Voice of the Xtabay and Bullock’s Wilshire: Hearing Yma Sumac from Southern California
Carolina A. Miranda

7. Musical Anthropology: A Conversation with Elisabeth Waldo
Gabriel Reyes-Whittaker

8. Esquivel!
Hans Ulrich Obrist

9. Listening across Boundaries: Soundings from the Paramount Ballroom and Boyle Heights
David F. Garcia

10. Studio Stories: Interviews with Session Musicians
Betto Arcos and Josh Kun

11. From Bahianas to the King of Pop . . . : A Speculative History of Brazilian Music into Los Angeles
Brian Cross

12. Heroes and Saints
Luis Alfaro

13. Staging the Dance of Coalition with Versa-Style and CONTRA-TIEMPO
Cindy García

14. Booming Bandas of Los Ángeles: Gender and the Transnational Zapotec Philharmonic Brass Bands
Xóchitl C. Chávez

15. Caminos y Canciones en Los Angeles, CA
Martha Gonzalez

List of Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	29.01.2018
Zusatzinfo	32 color and 24 b-w photos
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	907 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-520-29440-8 / 0520294408
ISBN-13	978-0-520-29440-0 / 9780520294400
Zustand	Neuware