Review: The Florida Room, by Alexandra T. Vazquez

Book Review| March 01 2024 Review: The Florida Room, by Alexandra T. Vazquez Alexandra T. Vazquez. The Florida Room. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 229 pages. Alexander Hardan Alexander Hardan Brown University Alexander Hardan is a PhD candidate in Musicology & Ethnomusicology at Brown University, where he works on Soviet musical pedagogy and performance as an instrument of "Sovietization" in Cuba during the Cold War. Specifically, Hardan focuses on discourses of the "Russian Sound" and choreographies of virtuosity produced in Soviet Cuba, and the subsequent effects of this musical Sovietization on the Cuban state's ideal revolutionary subject. Outside of the Cold War, he is also interested in performance studies and queer theory, namely the ways in which normative ideas of gender have conditioned ideas of virtuosic performance. His work is forthcoming in the Journal of Musicology and the Journal of Popular Music Studies. In 2023 Hardan was awarded the Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship by the American Musicological Society. He holds a B.M. in Violin Performance and M.M. degrees in both Violin Performance and Musicology from the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, as well as an M.A. in Ethnomusicology from Brown University. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Email: [email protected] Journal of Popular Music Studies (2024) 36 (1): 149–152. https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2024.36.1.149 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Alexander Hardan; Review: The Florida Room, by Alexandra T. Vazquez. Journal of Popular Music Studies 1 March 2024; 36 (1): 149–152. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2024.36.1.149 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of Popular Music Studies Search In her first book Listening in Detail: Performances of Cuban Music, Alexandra T. Vazquez proposed a mode of listening that accounts for unbounded musical ephemera and the things left behind—sonic excesses missed and forgotten that linger outside the borders delimiting discrete musical performance. For Vazquez, these details reveal traces of "the colonial, racial, and geographic past and present" (2013, 4). As something of a methodological extension to Listening in Detail, Vazquez's second monograph listens for the silenced details of Florida's fraught history as they find expression in music. To hear these details, she argues, is to hear stories that extend Florida well beyond its physical borders—stories that resist and outright refuse state-sanctioned narratives that have concealed decades of land extraction and violence with a veneer of luxury real estate development and the exoticized hedonism adorning visions of Miami's fabled nightlife. Vazquez also introduces a new analytic stated plainly... You do not currently have access to this content.