Josh Kun 
The Tide Was Always High [EPUB ebook] 
The Music of Latin America in Los Angeles

In 1980, the celebrated new wave band Blondie headed to Los Angeles to record a new album and along with it, the cover song “The Tide Is High, ” originally written by Jamaican legend John Holt. Featuring percussion by Peruvian drummer and veteran LA session musician “Alex” Acuña, and with horns and violins that were pure LA mariachi by way of Mexico, “The Tide Is High” demonstrates just one of the ways in which Los Angeles and the music of Latin America have been intertwined since the birth of the city in the eighteenth century.

  

The Tide Was Always High gathers together essays, interviews, and analysis from leading academics, artists, journalists, and iconic Latin American musicians to explore the vibrant connections between Los Angeles and Latin America. Published in conjunction with the Getty’s
Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, the book shows how Latin American musicians and music have helped shape the city’s culture—from Hollywood film sets to recording studios, from vaudeville theaters to Sunset Strip nightclubs, and from Carmen Miranda to Pérez Prado and Juan García Esquivel.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Tide Was Always High

Josh Kun


1. Mexican Musical Theater and Movie Palaces in Downtown Los Angeles before 1950

John Koegel


2. Rumba Emissaries

Alexandra T. Vazquez


3. Doing the Samba on Sunset Boulevard: Carmen Miranda and the Hollywoodization of Latin American Music

Walter Aaron Clark


4. Walt Disney’s Saludos Amigos: Hollywood and the Propaganda of Authenticity

Carol A. Hess


5. A Century of Latin Music at the Hollywood Bowl

Agustin Gurza


6. Voice of the Xtabay and Bullock’s Wilshire: Hearing Yma Sumac from Southern California

Carolina A. Miranda


7. Musical Anthropology: A Conversation with Elisabeth Waldo

Gabriel Reyes-Whittaker


8. Esquivel!

Hans Ulrich Obrist


9. Listening across Boundaries: Soundings from the Paramount Ballroom and Boyle Heights

David F. Garcia


10. Studio Stories: Interviews with Session Musicians

Betto Arcos and Josh Kun


11. From Bahianas to the King of Pop . . . : A Speculative History of Brazilian Music into Los Angeles

Brian Cross


12. Heroes and Saints

Luis Alfaro


13. Staging the Dance of Coalition with Versa-Style and CONTRA-TIEMPO

Cindy García


14. Booming Bandas of Los Ángeles: Gender and the Transnational Zapotec Philharmonic Brass Bands

Xóchitl C. Chávez


15. Caminos y Canciones en Los Angeles, CA

Martha Gonzalez


List of Contributors

Index

Über den Autor

Josh Kun is an author, journalist, curator, and Professor in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. He is a winner of a 2006 American Book Award and is a 2016 Mac Arthur Fellow.