Reimagining Panama's Musical and Cultural Narratives of Jazz

Panamanian Suite

Patricia Zarate de Perez

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Lexington Books
15 December 2023

Music; Music reviews & criticism; Jazz; History: specific events & topics; Social & cultural anthropology

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. The 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.

By: Patricia Zarate de Perez
Imprint: Lexington Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 159mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 481g
ISBN: 9781793621832
ISBN 10: 1793621837
Pages: 220
Publication Date: 15 December 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Patricia Zarate de Perez teaches at the Berklee Global Jazz Institute and is professor in the Music Therapy Department at Berklee College of Music.

Reviews for Reimagining Panama's Musical and Cultural Narratives of Jazz: Panamanian Suite

A fascinating tour through the presence of Panama in international musical compositions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries--and then the presence and impact of Panamanian musicians in the making of global jazz itself. If your mental map of the origins of jazz does not include the isthmus of Panama and its emigrants, it turns out, you've been missing a central part of the plot.--Lara Putnam, University of Pittsburgh