What is it about?
Offering a one-of-a-kind approach to music and literature of the Americas, this book examines the relationships between musical protagonists from Colombia, Cuba, and the United States in novels by writers such as Gabriel García Márquez, Alejo Carpentier, Zora Neale Hurston, and John Okada.
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Why is it important?
Now as much as ever, scholars need ways to understand and teach inter-related cultures of the American hemisphere.
Perspectives
This introduction brings my experiences as both a musician and literary scholar to bear on the content of this monograph.
Dr Marco A Katz
MacEwan University
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This page is a summary of: Overture, January 2014, Nature,
DOI: 10.1057/9781137433336_1.
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