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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Illuminations SeriesPublisher: PIttsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (433 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822972556
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rockin Las AmericasDDC classification:
  • 781.66098
LOC classification:
  • ML3917
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Mapping Rock Music Cultures across the Americas / Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Hector Fernandez L'Hoeste, and Eric Zolov -- La Onda Chicana: Mexico's Forgotten Rock Counterculture / Eric Zolov -- Between Rock and a Hard Place: Negotiating Rock in Revolutionary Cuba, 1960-1980 / Deborah Pacini Hernandez and Reebee Garofalo -- Black Pau: Uncovering the History of Brazilian Soul / Bryan McCann -- Boricua Rock: Puerto Rican by Necessity! / Jorge Arevalo Mateus -- The Politics and Anti-Politics of Uruguayan Rock / Abril Trigo -- A contra corriente": A History of Women Rockers in Mexico / Julia Palacios and Tere Estrada -- Soy punkera, ¿y qué?": Sexuality, Translocality, and Punk in Los Angeles and Beyond / Michelle Habell-Pallan -- 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 -- Let Me Sing My BRock: Learning to Listen to Brazilian Rock / Martha Tupinamba de Ulhoa -- Guatemala's Alux Nahual: A Non-"Latin American" Latin American Rock Group? / Paulo Alvarado -- My Generation: Rock and la Banda's Forced Survival Opposite the Mexican State / Hector Castillo Berthier -- Neoliberalism and Rock in the Popular Sectors of Contemporary Argentina / Pablo Seman, Pablo Vila, and Cecilia Benedetti -- A Detour to the Past: Memory and Mourning in Chilean Post-Authoritarian Rock / Walescka Pino-Ojeda -- The Nortec Edge: Border Traditions and "Electronica" in Tijuana / Susana Asensio -- Esperando La Última Ola / Waiting for the Last Wave: Manu Chao and the Music of Globalization / Josh Kun -- Afterword: A Changeable Template of Rock in Las Américas / George Yudice -- Appendix: Rock in Latin America, 1940-2000 -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: Rockin' Las Americas is the first book to explore the production, dissemination, and consumption of rock music throughout Latin America. Contributors include experts in music, history, literature, sociology, and anthropology, as well as practicing rockeros.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Mapping Rock Music Cultures across the Americas / Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Hector Fernandez L'Hoeste, and Eric Zolov -- La Onda Chicana: Mexico's Forgotten Rock Counterculture / Eric Zolov -- Between Rock and a Hard Place: Negotiating Rock in Revolutionary Cuba, 1960-1980 / Deborah Pacini Hernandez and Reebee Garofalo -- Black Pau: Uncovering the History of Brazilian Soul / Bryan McCann -- Boricua Rock: Puerto Rican by Necessity! / Jorge Arevalo Mateus -- The Politics and Anti-Politics of Uruguayan Rock / Abril Trigo -- A contra corriente": A History of Women Rockers in Mexico / Julia Palacios and Tere Estrada -- Soy punkera, ¿y qué?": Sexuality, Translocality, and Punk in Los Angeles and Beyond / Michelle Habell-Pallan -- 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 -- Let Me Sing My BRock: Learning to Listen to Brazilian Rock / Martha Tupinamba de Ulhoa -- Guatemala's Alux Nahual: A Non-"Latin American" Latin American Rock Group? / Paulo Alvarado -- My Generation: Rock and la Banda's Forced Survival Opposite the Mexican State / Hector Castillo Berthier -- Neoliberalism and Rock in the Popular Sectors of Contemporary Argentina / Pablo Seman, Pablo Vila, and Cecilia Benedetti -- A Detour to the Past: Memory and Mourning in Chilean Post-Authoritarian Rock / Walescka Pino-Ojeda -- The Nortec Edge: Border Traditions and "Electronica" in Tijuana / Susana Asensio -- Esperando La Última Ola / Waiting for the Last Wave: Manu Chao and the Music of Globalization / Josh Kun -- Afterword: A Changeable Template of Rock in Las Américas / George Yudice -- Appendix: Rock in Latin America, 1940-2000 -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

Rockin' Las Americas is the first book to explore the production, dissemination, and consumption of rock music throughout Latin America. Contributors include experts in music, history, literature, sociology, and anthropology, as well as practicing rockeros.

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