Long associated with the pejorative cliches of the
drug-trafficking trade and political violence, contemporary
Colombia has been unfairly stigmatized. In this pioneering study of
the Miami music industry and Miami's growing Colombian community,
Maria Elena Cepeda boldly asserts that popular music provides an
alternative common space for imagining and enacting Colombian
identity. Using an interdisciplinary analysis of popular media,
music, and music video, Cepeda teases out issues of gender,
sexuality, race, ethnicity, and transnational identity in the
Latino/a music industry and among its most renowned rock "en
espanol," pop, and "vallenato" stars.
Musical ImagiNation provides an overview of the ongoing
Colombian political and economic crisis and the dynamics of
Colombian immigration to metropolitan Miami. More notably, placed
in this context, the book discusses the creative work and media
personas of talented Colombian artists Shakira, Andrea Echeverri of
Aterciopelados, and Carlos Vives. In her examination of the
transnational figures and music that illuminate the recent shifts
in the meanings attached to Colombian identity both in the United
States and Latin America, Cepeda argues that music is a powerful
arbitrator of memory and transnational identity.
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