Rockin Las Americas: The Global Politics Of Rock In Latin/o America / Edition 1

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

Overview

Every nation in the Americas—from indigenous Peru to revolutionary Cuba—has been touched by the cultural and musical impact of rock. Rockin’ Las Américas 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’ Las Américas is an essential book for anyone who hopes to understand the complexities of Latin American culture today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780822958413
Publisher:	University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date:	05/23/2004
Series:	Pitt Illuminations
Edition description:	1
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Deborah Pacini Hernandez, associate professor of anthropology at Tufts University, is the author of Bachata: A Social History of a Dominican Popular Music.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	ix
	Mapping Rock Music Cultures across the Americas	1
	La Onda Chicana: Mexico's Forgotten Rock Counterculture	22
	Between Rock and a Hard Place: Negotiating Rock in Revolutionary Cuba, 1960-1980	43
	Black Pau: Uncovering the History of Brazilian Soul	68
	Boricua Rock: Puerto Rican by Necessity!	91
	The Politics and Anti-Politics of Uruguayan Rock	115
	"A contra corriente": A History of Women Rockers in Mexico	142
	"Soy punkera, y que?": Sexuality, Translocality, and Punk in Los Angeles and Beyond	160
	On How Bloque de Busqueda Lost Part of Its Name: The Predicament of Colombian Rock in the U.S. Market	179
	Let Me Sing My BRock: Learning to Listen to Brazilian Rock	200
	Guatemala's Alux Nahual: A Non-"Latin American" Latin American Rock Group?	220
	My Generation: Rock and la Banda's Forced Survival Opposite the Mexican State	241
	Neoliberalism and Rock in the Popular Sectors of Contemporary Argentina	261
	A Detour to the Past: Memory and Mourning in Chilean Post-Authoritarian Rock	290
	The Nortec Edge: Border Traditions and "Electronica" in Tijuana	312
	Esperando La Ultima Ola / Waiting for the Last Wave: Manu Chao and the Music of Globalization	332
	Afterword: A Changeable Template of Rock in Las Americas	347
Appendix	Rock in Latin America, 1940-2000	357
	Notes	363
	Selected Bibliography	395
	Contributors	405
	Index	409

Editorial Reviews

The importance of this book resides not only in its revealing documentation and analysis of rock en espanol, but in its implicit call for a rewriting of rock history as a global phenomenon from the outset.”
--Popular Music

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