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Rockin' las Américas : the global politics of rock in Latin/o America / edited by Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Héctor Fernández-L'Hoeste, and Eric Zolov.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: Spanish, English Series: Publication details: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, (c)2004.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 420 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822972556
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • ML3917 .R635 2004
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Contents:
Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Héctor Fernández 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 Arévalo 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-Pallán -- On how Bloque de Búsqueda lost part of its name : the predicament of Colombian rock in the U.S. market / Héctor D. Fernández-l'Hoeste -- Let me sing my BRock : learning to listen to Brazilian rock / Martha Tupinambá de Ulhôa -- 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 / Héctor Castillo Berthier -- Neoliberalism and rock in the popular sector in contemporary Argentina / Pablo Semán, 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.
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Subject: 'Rockin' Las Americas' explores the production, dissemination, and consumption of rock music throughout the Caribbean, Mexico, Central and South America, as well as among Latinos in the U.S. The contributors consider how rock has influenced Latin/Latino culture and how it relates to social issues in the region.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : mapping rock music cultures across the Americas / Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Héctor Fernández 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 Arévalo 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-Pallán -- On how Bloque de Búsqueda lost part of its name : the predicament of Colombian rock in the U.S. market / Héctor D. Fernández-l'Hoeste -- Let me sing my BRock : learning to listen to Brazilian rock / Martha Tupinambá de Ulhôa -- 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 / Héctor Castillo Berthier -- Neoliberalism and rock in the popular sector in contemporary Argentina / Pablo Semán, 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.

'Rockin' Las Americas' explores the production, dissemination, and consumption of rock music throughout the Caribbean, Mexico, Central and South America, as well as among Latinos in the U.S. The contributors consider how rock has influenced Latin/Latino culture and how it relates to social issues in the region.

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