Musicians in Transit

Matthew B. Karush is Professor of History at George Mason University. He is the author of Culture of Class: Radio and Cinema in the Making of a Divided Argentina, 1920–1946 and coeditor of The New Cultural History of Peronism: Power and Identity in Mid-Twentieth-Century Argentina, both also published by Duke University Press.

Acknowledgments  ix

Note about Online Resources  xi

Introduction  1

1. Black in Buenos Aires: Oscar Alemán and the Transnational History of Swing  15

2. Argentines into Latins: The Jazz Histories of Lalo Schifrin and Gato Barbieri  39

3. Cosmopolitan Tango: Astor Piazzolla at Home and Abroad  70

4. The Sound of Latin America: Sandro and the Invention of Balada  108

5. Indigenous Argentina and Revolutionary Latin America: Mercedes Sosa and the Multiple Meanings of Folk Music  142

6. The Music of Globalization: Gustavo Santaollalo and the Production of Rock Latino  179

Conclusion  216

Notes  221

Bibliography  249

Index  263