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A Chicano in a Cuban Band Okan Ise and Songo in Los Angeles

Clark, Walter Aaron

From Tejano to Tango, 2002, p.132-156

Routledge

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    A Chicano in a Cuban Band Okan Ise and Songo in Los Angeles
  • Autor: Clark, Walter Aaron
  • É parte de: From Tejano to Tango, 2002, p.132-156
  • Descrição: I will examine the phenomenon of music that is reflective of social change, new social networks, and sociocultural alignments. I offer my personal experience as a case study of one process of transculturation (cultural reconfiguration or recentering), a term coined by anthropologist Fernando Ortiz.1 The Ortiz theory features a two-way cultural interchange that can take place anytime, in a myriad of situations, when two distinct cultures come into contact with one another. Ortiz developed his theory as a response to North American anthropologists of the 1940s who used “acculturation” as a way of explaining the process of interaction and mutual influence between cultures. Looking at the word from a Latin American perspective, Ortiz saw great ambiguity in the term, which seemed more like a soft theory for the one-way imposition of the colonizers’ culture. He sought to undermine the homogenization implicit in the word “acculturation.” I would agree with Silvia Spitta (1997, 166) that Ortiz’s “transculturation” should be understood as two-way, multilevel cultural interchanges, borrowings, displacements, and recreations. Key to transculturation is reciprocity. My experiences with Latin Americans of distinct races and nationalities have involved equal “give-and-take,” a sense of sharing and borrowing ideas, a displacement of my own unchallenged and previously held smug or incorrect beliefs, resulting in the creation of a new identity shaped in part by useful or positive interactions. I will explore the affective character and consequences of songo as I experienced this music. Songo formed part of a progressive Afro-Cuban movement in Los Angeles among a select group of energetic veteran musicians in 1985. But before entering into the discussion of this collective formation, it is important to provide briefly some cultural context and historic background for my own experiences.
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  • Idioma: Inglês
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