In Tropical Riffs
Jason Borge traces how jazz helped forge modern identities and national
imaginaries in Latin America during the mid-twentieth century. Across
Latin America jazz functioned as a conduit through which debates about
race, sexuality, nation, technology, and modernity raged in newspapers,
magazines, literature, and film. For Latin American audiences, critics,
and intellectuals—who often understood jazz to stem from social
conditions similar to their own—the profound penetration into the fabric
of everyday life of musicians like Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, and
Charlie Parker represented the promises of modernity while
simultaneously posing a threat to local and national identities.
Brazilian antijazz rhetoric branded jazz as a problematic challenge to
samba and emblematic of Americanization. In Argentina jazz catalyzed
discussions about musical authenticity, race, and national culture,
especially in relation to tango. And in Cuba, the widespread popularity
of Chano Pozo and Dámaso Pérez Prado popularity challenged the United
States' monopoly on jazz. Outlining these hemispheric flows of ideas,
bodies, and music, Borge elucidates how "America's art form" was, and
remains, a transnational project and a collective idea.
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