Title: Latin Jazz: The First of the Fusions, 1880s to Today
Author: John Storm Roberts
Publisher: Schirmer Trade Books
ISBN-13: 978-0028646817
John Storm Roberts details the diversity and history of this often overlooked genre. He outlines the presence of Afro-Hispanic rhythms and musical forms in African-American jazz: exploring turn-of-the-century New Orleans, where the Cuban Habanera and Argentinean tango rhythms influenced the origins of the ragtime and jazz. Roberts traces the incorportion of these traces into the mambo innovation of Cachao Lopez and Chano Pozo and their impact on Dizzy Gillespie's big band; and the samba popularization by saxophonist Stan Getz and Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim with the 1960s hit, “The Girl from Ipanema.”
Title: Latin Jazz: The Other Jazz (Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music)
Author: Christopher Washburne
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0197510841
Jazz has always been a genre built on the blending of disparate musical cultures. Latin jazz illustrates this perhaps better than any other style in this rich tradition, yet its cultural heritage has been all but erased from narratives of jazz history. Told from the perspective of a long-time jazz insider, Latin Jazz: The Other Jazz corrects the record, providing a historical account that embraces the genre's international nature and explores the dynamic interplay of economics, race, ethnicity, and nationalism that shaped it.
Title: Bossa Nova: The Story of the Brazilian Music That Seduced the World
Author: Ruy Castro
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN-13: 978-1556524943
Bossa nova is one of the most popular musical genres in the world. Based on extensive interviews with Antonio Carlos Jobim, João Gilberto, and all the major musicians and their friends, Bossa Nova explains how a handful of Rio de Janeiro teenagers changed the face of popular culture around the world. Now, in this outstanding translation, the full flavor of Ruy Castro’s wisecracking, chatty Portuguese comes through in a feast of detail. Along the way he introduces a cast of unforgettable characters who turned Gilberto’s singular vision into the sound of a generation.
Title: My Sax Life: A Memoir (Latino Voices/Vidas)
Author: Paquito D’Rivera
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0810122185
My Sax Life is the award-winning memoir of famed Cuban musician Paquito D'Rivera, with more than thirty solo albums to his credit. D'Rivera has performed at the White House and the Blue Note, and with orchestras, jazz ensembles, and chamber groups around the world. D'Rivera recalls his early nightclub appearances as a child, , as well as his search for artistic freedom in communist Cuba and his hungry explorations of world music after his defection. Opinionated but always good-humored, My Sax Life is a fascinating statement on art and the artist’s life.
Title: Pop América, 1965-1975
Editor: Esther Gabara
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-938989-42-4
Pop América, 1965-1975 accompanies the first traveling exhibition to stage Pop art as a hemispheric phenomenon. The richly illustrated catalogue reveals the skill with which Latin American and Latino/a artists adapted familiar languages of mass media, fashion, and advertising to create experimental art in a startling range of mediums. In a new era in hemispheric relations, artists enacted powerful debates over what “America” was and what Pop art could do, offering a radical new view onto the postwar “American way of life” and Pop’s presumed political neutrality.
Title: Momentum: Art and Ecology in Contemporary Latin América
Editors: Inés Katzernstein, María del Carmen Carrión & 1 more
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-63345-148-3
This volume is a guide to the relationships between contemporary art and ecology, focusing in particular on the unique contributions of Latin America. The culmination of four years of research, conferences, and seminars conducted by the Cisneros Institute at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, it presents the perspectives not only of artists, art historians, and curators but also of intellectuals from a wide range of key disciplines. This anthology underscores the centrality of Latin American artistic practices that engage with the natural environment.
Title: Collective Situations: Reading in Contemporary Latin American Art, 1995-2010
Editors: Bill Kelley Jr. and Grant H. Kester
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-6941-7
This volume explores a range of socially engaged art practices that emerged in Latin America during the Pink Tide period, between 1995 and 2010. This volume's essays, interviews, and artist's statements—many of which are appearing in English for the first time—demonstrate the complex relationship between moments of political transformation and artistic production. Introducing English-language readers to some of the most dynamic and innovative contemporary art in Latin America, Collective Situations documents new possibilities for artistic practice, collaboration, and creativity in ways that have the capacity to foster vibrant forms of democratic citizenship.
Title: Circle and Circuits: Chinese Caribbean Art
Editor: Alexandra Chang
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-9987451-0-7
Circles and Circuits: Chinese Caribbean Art examines artistic production in Cuba, Trinidad, Jamaica, and Panama, where large immigrant populations and political, economic, and socio-cultural conditions enabled the development of rich art practices in the Chinese diasporic community. The volume touches on the dynamic interconnections between the Chinese diasporic art communities and intercontinental Caribbean art movements bringing into focus the intimate relationships between the artists and those around them. This volume was published by the Chinese American Museum with the assistance of the Getty Foundation and distributed by Duke University Press.
