Abstract
Musicians in Transit: Argentina and the Globalization of Popular Music by Matthew B. Karush, Duke University Press, 2017.
Highlights
The first three chapters of the book deal with Argentine musicians engaged with jazz: Oscar Alemán, Lalo Schifrin and Gato Barbieri
In the case of Sandro, Karush craftily shows how Sandro was one of the inventors of balada, a native Latin American music genre that was incredibly popular in the 1960s and 1970s all over the sub-continent and among the Latino population in the United States
The case of Mercedes Sosa reveals a different aspect of the process through which popular music became increasingly transnational after WWII, namely how the revolutionary Latin Americanism of her musical proposal was promoted by a multinational record company
Summary
The first three chapters of the book deal with Argentine musicians engaged with jazz: Oscar Alemán, Lalo Schifrin and Gato Barbieri. Piazzolla’s initial failure to gain an audience for his music in the United States and his eventual success in doing so in the 1980s and early 1990s. The final three chapters of the book deal with the musical trajectories of Sandro, Mercedes Sosa and Gustavo Santaolalla.
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