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From Tejano to Tango: Latin American Popular Music. .(Book Review)-

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Publication Date: 01-JUN-03 		Format: Online - approximately 1029 words
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Full Article Title: From Tejano to Tango: Latin American Popular Music. .(Book Review)-(book review)

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From Tejano to Tango: Latin American Popular Music. Edited by Walter Aaron Clark. New York: Routledge, 2002. [x, 286 p. ISBN 0-815-33639-X. $85 (hbk.); ISBN 0-815-33640-3. $27.95 (pbk.).] Illustrations, index.

Working from the premise that popular music must be studied from an interdisciplinary perspective, Walter Aaron Clark has edited an impressive collection of twelve essays by music scholars and social scientists from the United States and Latin America. The essays cover topics ranging from the use of the popular gaucho image to construct an Argentine musical identity in the early 1900s to United States participation in the Macarena dance craze of the 1990s. Each contribution presents precise definitions of styles, genres, and concepts, while providing detailed cultural and historical background on the repertories and performing artists discussed. As a whole, the collection articulates central issues in the study of popular music and demonstrates a wide variety of analytical methods and approaches to interpretation....

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