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The Florida Room (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,009
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The Florida Room (Hardcover): Alexandra T. Vazquez

The Florida Room (Hardcover)

Alexandra T. Vazquez

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In The Florida Room Alexandra T. Vazquez listens to the music and history of Miami to offer a lush story of place and people, movement and memory, dispossession and survival. She transforms the "Florida room"-an actual architectural phenomenon-into a vibrant spatial imaginary for Miami's musical cultures and everyday life. Drawing on songs, ephemera, and oral histories from artists, families, and inheritors of their traditions, Vazquez hears Miami as a city that has long been shaped by Indigenous Florida, the Bahamas, the Caribbean, and southern Georgia. She draws connections between seemingly disparate artists, sounds, and stories, from singer Gwen McCrae to pirate radio innovator DJ Uncle Al, from the Miccosukee rock band Tiger Tiger to the Cuban-American songwriter Desmond Child, among the percussionists Dafnis Prieto, Obed Calvaire, and Yosvany Terry, and through the notes of Eloise Lewis, Betty Wright, and the Miami Bass group Anquette. By listening to musical collaborations and ancestral ties across place and time, Vazquez brings together formal musical details, the histories of people and locations they hold, and the aesthetic traditions transformed inside them.

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Imprint: Duke University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: April 2022
First published: 2021
Authors: Alexandra T. Vazquez
Dimensions: 229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 978-1-4780-1530-7
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Music > General
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LSN: 1-4780-1530-6
Barcode: 9781478015307

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