My per-reviewed article "Cubanidad in Between: The Transnational Cuban Alternative Music Scene" is published at the Latin American Music Review Journal.

Happy to share a Link to the new issue of Latin American Music Review journal (Spring-Summer 2017), where I publish a per-reviewed article, entitled: "Cubanidad in between: The Transnational Cuban Alternative Music Scene."

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The article is part of one chapter of my PhD. dissertation, where I provide my analysis about the network of music collaborations, aesthetic connections and discourses among Cuban singer-songwriters and academically trained musicians who migrated in the last 25 years like Gema Corredera Pavel Urkiza Julio Fowler Habana Abierta  Yosvany Terry Dafnis Prieto Yusa Mar Descemer Bueno Eidel Morales (Mr. Haka), Cubiche, among many others, through cities like Madrid, New York and Miami. Thanks to Manny A. Diaz for the cover art.

Here's the article abstract in English and Spanish

Eva Silot Bravo

From:  Latin American Music Review
Volume 38, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2017
pp. 28-56

Abstract

abstract:

This article examines the music production and discourse of the transnational Cuban alternative music scene (TCAMS), a prolific diasporic network of Cuban singers, songwriters, and academically trained musicians. Through ethnographic research I map this transnational music scene throughout local, nonmainstream, and online music circuits. The TCAMS employs fusion as its main musical language, showcasing a strong musical and educational background. These musicians' transnational identities and discourses are in constant negotiation and assume apparent depoliticized and dystopian discourses in relation to dominant narratives of Cubanness. TCAMS is an "in between" transnational space of music creation, a shifting aesthetic and generational scene in the alternative context of Cuban music. It deconstructs the territoriality of Cuban music production and projects a postnational Cuban soundscape at the turn of the century.

resumen:

Este artículo examina prácticas de producción musical y de discurso de la escena transnacional cubana de música alternativa (ETCMA), una prolífera red de colaboración entre cantantes, cantautores y músicos entrenados académicamente en Cuba. A través de un trabajo etnográfico, el texto mapea a esta escena en circuitos de música locales, no comerciales y redes sociales. La fusión es el principal lenguaje musical de ETCMA, exhibe un sólido background educacional y musical. Las identidades y discursos transnacionales de estos músicos están en constante negociación y asumen discursos aparentemente despolitizados y distópicos con relación a narrativas dominantes de cubanidad. ETCMA es un espacio "in between" de creación musical transnacional, una escena de cambios estéticos y generacionales en el contexto de la música cubana alternativa. Esta escena de música deconstruye la territorialidad de la producción musical cubana y proyecta un paisaje sonoro cubano posnacional de cambio de siglo.