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3.3 Flute style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
3.4 Violin style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
3.5 Piano montunos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
3.6 Bass lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
3.7 Clave patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
3.8 Genres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
3.9 Arrangements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
3.10 Choice of repertoire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
3.11 Song Texts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
3.12 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
4 The Social Context of Charanga Performance 50
4.1 Part I: Performance Sites and Audience Composition . . . . . . . . 50
Performance sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.
Performance structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Performance structure outline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Audiences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
4.2 Musicians' Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
4.3 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
4.4 Part II: The Market and The City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6o
Number of clubs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Management issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Merengue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Demographic changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Cost of living . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
D rugs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
4.5 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
5 The Charanga Tradition 65
5.1 Orquesta Broadway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
5.2 La Orquesta Tipica Novel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
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Murphy, John P. (John Patrick). The Charanga in New York, 1987-88: Musical Style, Performance Context, and Tradition, thesis or dissertation, 2020; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1755870/m1/4/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT College of Music.