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Puerto Rican Music and Cultural Identity: Creative Appropriation of Cuban Sources from Danza to Salsa
- Author(s):
- PETER MANUEL (see profile)
- Date:
- 1994
- Item Type:
- Article
- Permanent URL:
- https://doi.org/10.17613/ttkr-wq84
- Abstract:
- In this article I explore the process by which Puerto Ricans have appropriated and resignified Cuban musical forms as symbols of their own cultural identity. In some senses, the resignification of Cuban music by Puerto Ricans has involved distortions of historical fact, as I shall illustrate. More importantly, however, it has constituted a social process of appropriation by which Cuban musical origins, however once crucial in Puerto Rican culture, have in fact become irrelevant to Puerto Ricans and Nuyoricans. This perceived irrelevance itself is the result of a complex process of socio-musical rearticulation which can be seen as a feature of Puerto Rican culture in general-a culture which has consistently been conditioned by a complex, overlapping, and often contradictory set of multiple identities.
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- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 1 year ago
- License:
- Attribution
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