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The Florida Room (Paperback)
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The Florida Room (Paperback)
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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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