Making meaning by default. Timba and the challenges of escapist music
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| author | Vincenzo Perna |
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| contents | Making meaning by default. Timba and the challenges of escapist music Vincenzo Perna Arte The article examines timba as a form of discourse inscribed in the influential notionof the black Atlantic formulated by Paul Gilroy. It makes the case of timba as a typeof non-engaged music which, while presenting itself as emphatically escapist,during the 1990s has in fact become intensely political in the way it has articulated adiscourse challenging dominant views on race, class, gender and nation.Significantly, Gilroys analysis pays a special attention to music and dance,considering them as foundational elements of black diasporic culture. Such role ofmusic and dance can be seen at work in timba, where they have challenged theconventional meaning of political song. Contrary to writers who have tried toreduce timba to an ephemeral occurrence of the 1990s, the article contends thatmúsica bailable (dance music) continues to represent the most visible black Cubansubcultural mass expression, and possibly one of the most significant cultural formsemerged from the island during the last century, where it has appeared able tonegotiate a place between a sense of belonging and a vision of modernity that holdsa central place in the identity of contemporary Afro-Cubans. 2005 artículo científico 1697-0101 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=82200906 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=822 Trans. Revista Transcultural de Música application/pdf Sociedad de Etnomusicología Trans. Revista Transcultural de Música (España) Num.9 |
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| spellingShingle | Making meaning by default. Timba and the challenges of escapist music Vincenzo Perna Arte Making meaning by default. Timba and the challenges of escapist music Vincenzo Perna Arte The article examines timba as a form of discourse inscribed in the influential notionof the black Atlantic formulated by Paul Gilroy. It makes the case of timba as a typeof non-engaged music which, while presenting itself as emphatically escapist,during the 1990s has in fact become intensely political in the way it has articulated adiscourse challenging dominant views on race, class, gender and nation.Significantly, Gilroys analysis pays a special attention to music and dance,considering them as foundational elements of black diasporic culture. Such role ofmusic and dance can be seen at work in timba, where they have challenged theconventional meaning of political song. Contrary to writers who have tried toreduce timba to an ephemeral occurrence of the 1990s, the article contends thatmúsica bailable (dance music) continues to represent the most visible black Cubansubcultural mass expression, and possibly one of the most significant cultural formsemerged from the island during the last century, where it has appeared able tonegotiate a place between a sense of belonging and a vision of modernity that holdsa central place in the identity of contemporary Afro-Cubans. 2005 artículo científico 1697-0101 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=82200906 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=822 Trans. Revista Transcultural de Música application/pdf Sociedad de Etnomusicología Trans. Revista Transcultural de Música (España) Num.9 |
| title | Making meaning by default. Timba and the challenges of escapist music |
| topic | Arte |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=82200906 |