1st Edition
Made in Puerto Rico Studies in Popular Music
Series foreword
List of figures
Prologue
Introduction: The embodied soundscape of popular music studies in Puerto Rico
PART I: The invention of the popular in Puerto Rican music
Section introduction: The invention of the popular in Puerto Rican music
Noel Allende-Goitía
1 What is popular in Puerto Rican music? Music and musiking as construction and affirmation of the self
Noel Allende-Goitía
2 Identity debates and symbolic capital: Cultural policies around traditional Puerto Rican music
Mareia Quintero Rivera
3 Revisiting Puerto Rican Nueva Canción and its discourse of resistance
Mario Cancel-Bigay
4 Cuatro music keeps finding new life: Artists, trends, and contemporary practice
Noraliz Ruiz-Caraballo
5 Crisis notwithstanding: Metal in Puerto Rico
Ramón Rosario-Luna
PART II: Music, memory, and history
Section introduction
Hugo R. Viera-Vargas and Errol L. Montes-Pizarro
6 Puerto Rican Music in the Afro-diasporic world
Errol L. Montes-Pizarro
7 Plenazos callejeros, embodied memory, and contemporary plena in Puerto Rico, 2005–2012
Hugo R. Viera-Vargas
8 (Re)listening to Gottschalk, Morel Campos, and the jíbaros: Danza’s connection with early jazz
Jaime O. Bofill-Calero
9 Record companies in New York City’s East Harlem during the first half of the 20th century
Ewin Martínez Torre
10 Bomba: A long invisible practice of Black placemaking in Puerto Rico
Melanie Maldonado
PART III: Globalization of the Puerto Rican sound
Section introduction
Jaime O. Bofill-Calero and Noraliz Ruiz-Caraballo
11 De Puerto Rico Pa’l Mundo: A brief history of Puerto Rico’s reggaeton music scene
Omar Ruiz Vega
12 Between romantic idealism and the tough streets: A look at the development of contemporary salsa in Puerto Rico
Andrés Espinoza Agurto
13 Made in Puerto Rico, made in Chicago: Diaspora as a method for thinking about Puerto Rican music-dance
Juan Eduardo Wolf
(written in collaboration with Orlando Rivera, Evaristo “Tito” Rodríguez, and Omar Torres-Kortright)
14 Queering Menudo: Forever Young
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes
15 Coda: Interview with composer Angélica Negrón
Members of Colectivo de Estudios Musicales de Puerto Rico
Selected bibliography on Puerto Rican popular music
List of contributors
Index
Biography
Hugo R. Viera-Vargas is Professor at the Universidad Albizu, San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Associate Researcher at Colectivo de Estudios Musicales de Puerto Rico.
Noraliz Ruiz-Caraballo is Associate Researcher at Colectivo de Estudios Musicales de Puerto Rico, and Musical Director for Orquesta Jíbara Dr. Francisco López Cruz, Puerto Rico.
Errol L. Montes-Pizarro is Professor of Mathematics at the Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Cayey, and Associate Researcher at Colectivo de Estudios Musicales de Puerto Rico.
Jaime O. Bofill-Calero is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico, and Associate Researcher at Colectivo de Estudios Musicales de Puerto Rico.
Noel Allende-Goitía is Associate Researcher at Colectivo de Estudios Musicales de Puerto Rico, and Lecturer of Comparative History of Music and Research Methodology at Armoniarte Escuela Superior de Educación Artística, México.
