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By Alexandra T. Vazquez

Listening in Detail is an unique and impassioned tackle the highbrow and sensory bounty of Cuban tune because it circulates among the island, the us, and different destinations. it's also a robust critique of efforts to outline "Cuban song" for ethnographic exam or marketplace intake. Contending that the song isn't really a knowable entity yet a spectrum of dynamic practices that elude definition, Alexandra T. Vazquez versions a brand new approach of writing approximately song and the meanings assigned to it. "Listening intimately" is a technique invested in establishing up, instead of pinning down, reports of Cuban track. evaluations of imperialism, nationalism, race, and gender emerge in fragments and moments, and in gestures and sounds via Vazquez's engagement with Alfredo Rodríguez's album Cuba Linda (1996), the seventy-year occupation of the vocalist Graciela Pérez, the signature grunt of the "Mambo King" Dámaso Pérez Prado, Cuban song documentaries of the Sixties, and late-twentieth-century live performance ephemera.

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