Reimagining Panama's Musical and Cultural Narratives of Jazz

Panamanian Suite

Patricia Zarate de Perez

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2023
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9798881881672
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music History & Criticism

Reimagining Panama's Musical and Cultural Narratives of Jazz: Panamanian Suite narrates the complex relationship between Panama and the United States by tracing the paths of their music, tracking the development of jazz in Panama from the mid-nineteenth century to the modern day through three movements: pre-jazz, jazz, and global jazz. As a vital port of Caribbean migration in the twentieth century, Panama played an essential role in the emergence and shaping of jazz and other cultural forms, many of which influenced culture on the mainland United States. Patricia Zarate de Perez explores new narratives of jazz from a Pan-Afro-Latin American perspective, beginning with an examination of music that contributed to a Panamanian imaginary which justified the expansion of imperial territories beginning in the mid-nineteenth century. This Panamanian imaginary and the white supremacy embedded within it also served as a basis for the erasure of the contributions of Panamanians throughout jazz history, but not without resistance-modern Panamanian artists and cultural leaders continue to enact redressing actions even now. This book documents a history of jazz in Panama, naming its principal characters and culminating with the development of Global Jazz, a twenty-first century imaginary centered on the next generation of musicians and their place in jazz history.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Figures
• Acknowledgments
• Prelude
• Introduction
• Part I: First Movement: Pre-Jazz—The Birth of Imaginaries
• Chapter 1: Creating Imaginary Panama through Music
• Chapter 2: The Music of the Panama Canal
• Part II: Second Movement: Jazz—Erasing Contributions
• Chapter 3: Panamanians in Jazz
• Chapter 4: Tambo Jazz and the Golden Era of Jazz in Panama
• Part III: Third Movement: Global Jazz—Redressing Actions
• Chapter 5: Panama’s Redressing Actions
• Chapter 6: Global Jazz
• Epilogue
• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author