Matthew B Karush: 2 books
Culture of Class
Radio and Cinema in the Making of a Divided Argentina, 1920–1946
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
In an innovative cultural history of Argentine movies and radio in the decades before Peronism, Matthew B. Karush demonstrates that competition with jazz and Hollywood cinema shaped Argentina's domestic cultural production in crucial ways, as Argentine producers tried to elevate their offerings to...
Musicians in Transit
Argentina and the Globalization of Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
In Musicians in Transit Matthew B. Karush examines the transnational careers of seven of the most influential Argentine musicians of the twentieth century: Afro-Argentine swing guitarist Oscar Alemán, jazz saxophonist Gato Barbieri, composer Lalo Schifrin, tango innovator Astor Piazzolla, balada...