TOPIC 7: Racialized Sounds
7.1 SALSA and Puerto Rican Belonging
Read: Chavéz, Salsa and Migration in National Park Service.
Read: Chavéz, Orquestas Femeninas: All-Women Salsa Bands in National Park Service.
Read (optional): Negrón, Fania Records and its Nuyorican Imaginary: Representing Salsa as Commodity and Cultural Sign in Our Latin Thing in Journal of Popular Music Studies, Volume 27, Issue 3, Pages 274–303.
Watch: Our Latin Thing, 1971, Bt Leon Gast-Fania
Watch: First Part-Until 30:14′, From Mambo to Hip Hop: A South Bronx Tale
7.2 MERENGUE AND BACHATA: Dominican Racial Identity in New York
Read: Pacini Hernández, “Urban Bachata and Dominican Racial Identity in New York,” in Cahiers d’Études Africaines , 2014, Vol. 54, Cahier 216, Musiques dans l’«Atlantique noir (2014), pp. 1027-1054. (Download de PDF via Open Edition Journals.
Read: Austerlitz, Merengue: Dominican Music and Identity, in Gettysburg College Faculty Books.
Listen: The Merengue War in La Brega (Podcast)
Optional: Read: “Chapter 6: Temporary Transvestites: Cross-Dressing Merengue, Bachata and Reggaeton,” in Tigers of a Different Stripe: Performing Gender in Dominican Music. (Sign up through your library and download PDF)
7.3 JAZZ and The Empire’s Cultural Diplomacy
Read: Dyer, “Afterword: Tradition, Influence, and Innovation,” in But Beautiful: a Book About Jazz. (Through library: physical copy) OR download ePub (with author’s permission)
Watch: “The Jazz Ambassadors” PBS (2018)
Optional Read: Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues,” in Partisan Review, 1957.
Optional Read: Balliet, “Out Here Again: a Profile of Mary Lou Williams” in The New Yorker, April 24, 1964.
Recommended: Enstice and Stockhouse, Jazzwomen: Conversations with Twenty-One Musicians in (Indiana University Press, 2004). *Available to borrow at Internet Archive.
Listen:
Watch one of the following documentaries:
Suggested Poetry: “T-Monious,” by Thulani Davis
7.4 LATIN JAZZ: “Intercultural” jazz?
Read: Washburne, Latin Jazz, Afro-Latin Jazz, Afro-Cuban Jazz, Cubop, Caribbean Jazz, Jazz Latin, or Just . . . Jazz: The Politics of Locating an Intercultural Music in Jazz/Not Jazz: The Music and Its Boundaries. (pp.89-106)
Watch:
Calle 54, a documentary by Fernando Trueba, 2001.
Watch:
“Latin Jazz,” by Isabelle Laymarie (1991).
7.5 REGGAE
Read: Sinclair, “Revisiting my Rastafari Childhood,” in The New Yorker, July 31, 2023.
Read: Haynes, “Embodied Minstrelsy, Racialization and Redemption in Reggae.” in European Journal of Cultural Studies 22 (5-6): 996-1012.
Watch: Babylon (1980) by Franco Rosso *Available in Kanopy through your Hunter Student account (Or NYPL account).
Read: Hua, What “Babylon” Captured about Racism and Reggae,” in The New Yorker, March 7, 2019.
Listen:
TOPIC 8: Hip-Hop (Revolution, cultural critique, anti-imperialism)
8.1 Global Politics, copyrights, and Hip Hop
Read: Sharma, “Rap, Race, Revolution: Post-9/11 Brown and a Hip-Hop Critique of Empire”, in Audible Empire: Music, Global Politics, Critique (Duke University Press, 2016), 292-313. *The Library is your friend…
Watch: Second Part (from 30:14′)
8.2 Hip Hop Feminism:
Read: Chapter 5: “Hip Hop: Raging Sexism,” in Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres (Penguin Press, 2021) (pp.554-564)
Watch:
