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How class divisions shape the definition of Ecuador's national music and identity

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""Whose National Music? introduces an analysis rich in historical depth and socio-musical complexity of the idiosyncratic, changing, and inevitably contested use of the term musica nacional in Ecuador. Ketty Wong provides a fascinating discourse analysis, one that focuses on the power of language to claim and label music as a participatory act in imagining the nation.""--Ethnomusicology, Fall 2013

<p> Wong has produced a very important work--the first comprehensive book on Ecuadorian popular music with interviews, a thorough, readable study of the local record industry, and participant-observation fieldwork. She succeeds in linking the issues of national identity with popular music, explaining musica nacional , the history of the pasillo , of the musica rocolera , of musica chicha and the tecnocumbia . Her arguments are solid and her theoretical approach is informed. <br>--Raul R. Romero, Director of the Institute of Ethnomusicology at the Catholic University of Peru

<p> Wong has produced a very important work--the first comprehensive book on Ecuadorian popular music with interviews, a thorough, readable study of the local record industry, and participant-observation fieldwork. She succeeds in linking the issues of national identity with popular music, explaining musica nacional , the history of the pasillo , of the musica rocolera , of musica chicha and the tecnocumbia . Her arguments are solid and her theoretical approach is informed. <br> --Raul R. Romero, Director of the Institute of Ethnomusicology at the Catholic University of Peru

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Ketty Wong is an Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Kansas. In 2010, she received the prestigious Casa de las AmÉricas Musicology Prize for La mÚsica nacional: Identidad, mestizaje y migraciÓn en el Ecuador, the Spanish language version of this book.  

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