The Sounds of Latinidad: Immigrants Making Music and Creating Culture in a Southern City (Social Transformations in American Anthropology)

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The Sounds of Latinidad explores the Latino music scene as a lens through which to remember changing ideas about latinidad in the New South. That specialize in Latino immigrant musicians and their fans in Charlotte, North Carolina, the volume shows how limited economic mobility, social marginalization, and restrictive immigration policies have stymied immigrants’ access to the American dream and musicians’ dreams of success. Instead, Latin music has turn out to be a way to form community, debate political questions, and claim cultural citizenship.  
 
The volume illuminates the complexity of Latina/o musicians’ lives. They find themselves at the intersection of culture and politics, ceaselessly pushed to define a vision of what it means to be Latino in a globalizing city in the Nuevo South. At the same time, they ceaselessly keep away from overt political statements and do not participate in immigrants’ rights struggles, instead holding a cautious view of political engagement. Yet despite this politics of ambivalence, Latina/o musicians do assert intellectual agency and engage in a politics that may be embedded in their musical community, debating aesthetics, forging collective solidarity with their audiences, and protesting poor working conditions.  
 
Challenging scholarship on popular music that makes a speciality of famous artists or on one particular genre, this volume demonstrates how exploring the on a regular basis lives of unusual musicians can lead to a deeper understanding of musicians’ role in society. It argues that the ceaselessly overlooked population of Latina/o musicians must be central to our understanding of what it means to live in a southern U.S. city today. 

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