The Sounds of Latinidad: Immigrants Making Music and Creating Culture in a Southern City

by Samuel Kyle Byrd

The Sounds of Latinidad explores the Latino music scene as a lens through which to understand changing ideas about latinidad in the New South. Focusing on Latino immigrant musicians and their fans in Charlotte, North Carolina, the volume shows how limited economic mobility, social marginalization, and restrictive immigration policies have stymied immigrants' access to the American dream and musicians' dreams of success. Instead, Latin music has...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479859400
• ISBN13: 9781479859405
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"