Rockin Las Americas
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Rockin Las Americas

The Global Politics Of Rock In Latin/o America

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eBook - PDF

Rockin Las Americas

The Global Politics Of Rock In Latin/o America

About this book

Every nation in the Americas—from indigenous Peru to revolutionary Cuba—has been touched by the cultural and musical impact of rock. Rockin\u2019 Las Am\u00e9ricas is 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 Latin and Latino America, including: Why did rock become such a controversial cultural force in the region? In what ways has rock served as a medium for expressing national identities? How are unique questions of race, class, and gender inscribed in Latin American rock? What makes Latin American rock Latin American? Rockin\u2019 Las Am\u00e9ricas is an essential book for anyone who hopes to understand the complexities of Latin American culture today.

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Yes, you can access Rockin Las Americas by Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Eric Zolov, Héctor D. Fernández L'Hoeste, Deborah Pacini Hernandez,Eric Zolov,Hector Fernandez-L'Hoeste,Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Media & Performing Arts & Ethnomusicology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Mapping Rock Music Cultures across the Americas / Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Hector Fernandez L'Hoeste, and Eric Zolov
  4. La Onda Chicana: Mexico's Forgotten Rock Counterculture / Eric Zolov
  5. Between Rock and a Hard Place: Negotiating Rock in Revolutionary Cuba, 1960-1980 / Deborah Pacini Hernandez and Reebee Garofalo
  6. Black Pau: Uncovering the History of Brazilian Soul / Bryan McCann
  7. Boricua Rock: Puerto Rican by Necessity! / Jorge Arevalo Mateus
  8. The Politics and Anti-Politics of Uruguayan Rock / Abril Trigo
  9. "A contra corriente": A History of Women Rockers in Mexico / Julia Palacios and Tere Estrada
  10. "Soy punkera, ¿y qué?": Sexuality, Translocality, and Punk in Los Angeles and Beyond / Michelle Habell-Pallan
  11. On How Bloque de Búsqueda Lost Part of Its Name: The Predicament of Colombian Rock in the U.S. Market / Hector D. Fernandez L'Hoeste
  12. Let Me Sing My BRock: Learning to Listen to Brazilian Rock / Martha Tupinamba de Ulhoa
  13. Guatemala's Alux Nahual: A Non-"Latin American" Latin American Rock Group? / Paulo Alvarado
  14. My Generation: Rock and la Banda's Forced Survival Opposite the Mexican State / Hector Castillo Berthier
  15. Neoliberalism and Rock in the Popular Sectors of Contemporary Argentina / Pablo Seman, Pablo Vila, and Cecilia Benedetti
  16. A Detour to the Past: Memory and Mourning in Chilean Post-Authoritarian Rock / Walescka Pino-Ojeda
  17. The Nortec Edge: Border Traditions and "Electronica" in Tijuana / Susana Asensio
  18. Esperando La Última Ola / Waiting for the Last Wave: Manu Chao and the Music of Globalization / Josh Kun
  19. Afterword: A Changeable Template of Rock in Las Américas / George Yudice
  20. Appendix: Rock in Latin America, 1940-2000
  21. Notes
  22. Selected Bibliography
  23. Contributors
  24. Index