Rockin Las Americas The Global Politics of Rock in Latin/o America

Name: Rockin Las Americas The Global Politics of Rock in Latin/o America
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ISBN: 9780822958413

ISBN-10: 0822958414

ISBN-13: 9780822958413

Edition: 2004

Authors: Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Eric Zolov, Hector Fernandez-L'Hoeste

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Every nation in the Americas-from indigenous Peru to revolutionary Cuba-has been touched by the cultural and musical impact of rock.Rockinrsquo; Las Ameacute;ricasis the first book to explore the production, dissemination, and consumption of rock music throughout the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America, Brazil, the Andes, and the Southern Cone as well as among Latinos in the United States. The contributors include experts in music, history, literature, culture, sociology, and anthropology, as well as practicing rockeros and rockeras. The multidisciplinary, transnational, and comparative perspectives they bring to the topic serve to address a broad range of fundamental questions about rock in…

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List price: $60.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date: 5/23/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Hernandez is associate professor of anthropology at Tufts University.



Acknowledgments


Mapping Rock Music Cultures across the Americas



La Onda Chicana: Mexico's Forgotten Rock Counterculture



Between Rock and a Hard Place: Negotiating Rock in Revolutionary Cuba, 1960-1980



Black Pau: Uncovering the History of Brazilian Soul



Boricua Rock: Puerto Rican by Necessity!



The Politics and Anti-Politics of Uruguayan Rock



"A contra corriente": A History of Women Rockers in Mexico



"Soy punkera, y que?": Sexuality, Translocality, and Punk in Los Angeles and Beyond



On How Bloque de Busqueda Lost Part of Its Name: The Predicament of Colombian Rock in the U.S. Market



Let Me Sing My BRock: Learning to Listen to Brazilian Rock



Guatemala's Alux Nahual: A Non-"Latin American" Latin American Rock Group?



My Generation: Rock and la Banda's Forced Survival Opposite the Mexican State



Neoliberalism and Rock in the Popular Sectors of Contemporary Argentina



A Detour to the Past: Memory and Mourning in Chilean Post-Authoritarian Rock



The Nortec Edge: Border Traditions and "Electronica" in Tijuana



Esperando La Ultima Ola / Waiting for the Last Wave: Manu Chao and the Music of Globalization



Afterword: A Changeable Template of Rock in Las Americas




Rock in Latin America, 1940-2000


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Contributors


Index