Listening in Detail: Performances of Cuban Music

(Duke University Press) This book looks at Cuban music as it circulates between the island, the United States, and other locations. It critiques efforts to define “Cuban music” for ethnographic examination or market consumption, contending that music is not a knowable entity but a spectrum of practices. Critiques of imperialism, nationalism, race, and gender also factor into her book. Vazquez is an assistant professor of African American studies and English at Princeton University.