Salsa cubana libros5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() The musical decisions and dilemmas Cuban musicians face, however, reveal certain theoretical, empirical and ethical limitations of hybridity. ![]() In their diasporic situation as Cuban migrants, attempting to compete in a cosmopolitan centre like Toronto, the arrangements and musical lives of the musicians are emblematic of hybridity, as a concept that, of recent, acts as a rubric for a major shift in the way of thinking about identities. Theoretically, the study is framed as a review of the concept of hybridity. This generic indeterminacy impacted on how Cuban musicians attempted to represent themselves musically: they drew musical distinctions that intersected with national, racial, ethnic, gender and other types of social categories. Cuban music is part of a multilateral, international continuum, fading into and rising out of various musical realms, most notably salsa, Latin music, Latin jazz and world music. This analysis takes into account the influence the international industries of Latin music and world music had on their musical decisions. ![]() Combining ethnographic with musical analysis, this dissertation examines how, in making musical decisions, musicians implicated issues of identity. Abstract This study focuses on the arranging strategies of five Cuban musicians who, having migrated to Canada between 1997 to 2000, were attempting to adapt and establish their careers in the competitive, multicultural city of Toronto.
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