Cumbia is a musical form that originated in northern Colombia and
then spread throughout Latin America and wherever Latin Americans
travel and settle. It has become one of the most popular musical
genre in the Americas. Its popularity is largely due to its
stylistic flexibility. Cumbia absorbs and mixes with the local
musical styles it encounters. Known for its appeal to workers, the
music takes on different styles and meanings from place to place,
and even, as the contributors to this collection show, from person
to person. Cumbia is a different music among the working classes of
northern Mexico, Latin American immigrants in New York City, Andean
migrants to Lima, and upper-class Colombians, who now see the music
that they once disdained as a source of national prestige. The
contributors to this collection look at particular manifestations
of cumbia through their disciplinary lenses of musicology,
sociology, history, anthropology, linguistics, and literary
criticism. Taken together, their essays highlight how intersecting
forms of identity-such as nation, region, class, race, ethnicity,
and gender-are negotiated through interaction with the music.
Contributors. Cristian Alarcon, Jorge Arevalo Mateus, Leonardo
D'Amico, Hector Fernandez L'Hoeste, Alejandro L. Madrid, Kathryn
Metz, Jose Juan Olvera Gudino, Cathy Ragland, Pablo Seman, Joshua
Tucker, Matthew J. Van Hoose, Pablo Vila
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