Cover ; Contents ; Acknowledgments ; Note about Online Resources ; Introduction ; 1. Black in Buenos Aires: Oscar Alemán and the Transnational History of Swing ; 2. Argentines into Latins: The Jazz Histories of Lalo Schifrin and Gato Barbieri ; 3. Cosmopolitan Tango: Astor Piazzolla at Home and Abroad ; 4. The Sound of Latin America: Sandro and the Invention of Balada ; 5. Indigenous Argentina and Revolutionary Latin America: Mercedes Sosa and the Multiple Meanings of Folk Music
6. The Music of Globalization: Gustavo Santaolalla and the Production of Rock Latino Conclusion ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index ; A ; B ; C ; D ; F ; G ; H ; I ; J ; K ; L ; M ; N ; O ; P ; Q ; R ; S ; T ; U ; V ; W ; Y ; Z
Summary
In Musicians in Transit Matthew B. Karush examines the careers of seven major twentieth-century Argentine popular musicians in the transnational context to show how their engagement with foreign genres, ideologies, and audiences helped them create innovative new music and shape new Argentine cultural and national identities
