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March 25, 2011

Philip Hayward. Bounty Chords: Music, Dance and Cultural Heritage on Norfolk and Pitcairn Islands.

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Philip Hayward.  Bounty Chords:  Music, Dance and Cultural Heritage on Norfolk and Pitcairn Islands.  Eastleigh, UK:  John Libbey & Co, 2006. Pp 256.  £15.00.

Kevin Hood
Indiana University

In Philip Hayward’s Bounty Chords seemingly every aspect of music on Pitcairn Island and Norfolk Island is examined to the finest detail, leaving no proverbial stone unturned.  From the settlement of these South Pacific colonies to the present day, Bounty Chords gives the reader an interesting, though somewhat burdened history of expressive arts on the islands.

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November 5, 2008

Sydney Hutchinson. From Quebradita to Duranguense: Dance in Mexican American Youth Culture

Posted by folkpub under Book Review, Cultural Performance, Dance, Immigrant Communities, Music, North America
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Sydney Hutchinson. From Quebradita to Duranguense: Dance in Mexican American Youth Culture. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007. 240 pages. $24.95 softcover.

Gustavo Ponce
Independent Scholar


Sydney Hutchinson’s From Quebradita to Duranguense: Dance in Mexican American Youth Culture is a riveting and award-worthy study. This book is simply brilliant. Hutchinson takes on the quebradita/tecnobanda dance craze of the mid 1990s. This dance style was particularly popular among Latino youth in Los Angeles and Tucson and, by 2006, it evolved into pasito duranguense in Chicago. Hutchinson presents an insightful social and critical analysis of how mainstream American culture has repeatedly failed to incorporate these subaltern groups into its political, social, and economic apparatus. (more…)

 

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