Dish 2: Turning Up the Heat

By Diane Muldrow

Book Overview

Long a favorite on dance floors in Latin America, the porro, cumbia, and vallenato styles that make up Colombia's m?sica tropical are now enjoying international success. How did this music-which has its roots in a black, marginal region of the country-manage, from the 1940s onward, to become so popular in a nation that had prided itself on its white heritage? Peter Wade explores the history of m?sica tropical , analyzing its rise in the context of the development of the broadcast media, rapid urbanization, and regional struggles for power. Using archival sources and oral histories, Wade shows how big band renditions of cumbia and porro in the 1940s and 1950s suggested both old traditions and new liberties, especially for women, speaking to a deeply rooted image of black music as sensuous. Recently, nostalgic, "whitened" versions of m?sica tropical have gained popularity as part of government-sponsored multiculturalism. Wade's fresh look at the way music transforms and is transformed by ideologies of race, nation, sexuality, tradition, and modernity is the first book-length study of Colombian popular music.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0448428164
• ISBN13: 9780448428161
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
• Length: 155 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

I LOVED the dish illustrations!

This book series is about is a group of girls who form a cooking club and cook for people in their neighborhood and lots of other places too! They all act like normal girls and solve problems with the help of their friends. This particular book is about when the girls formed the main idea for the cooking club and their enemy threatens to wreck their summer plans! I loved the book. I read it in one day! The whole series is great and i LOVE the illustrations. They look so real and I love how the artist makes everything looked perfect. I just LOVED everything about this book!