Rockin' las Américas : the global politics of rock in Latin/o America /

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Imprint:Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2004.
Description:1 online resource (ix, 420 pages) : illustrations, map
Language:English
Spanish
Series:Illuminations : cultural formations of the Americas
Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
University of Pittsburgh Digital Editions.
University of Pittsburgh Digital Collections.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11228059
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Other authors / contributors:Pacini Hernandez, Deborah, editor.
Fernández l'Hoeste, Héctor D., 1962- editor.
Zolov, Eric, editor.
ISBN:9780822972556
0822972557
0822942267
9780822942269
0822958414
9780822958413
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-403) and index.
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Summary:'Rockin' Las Americas' explores the production, dissemination, & consumption of rock music throughout the Caribbean, Mexico, Central & South America, as well as among Latinos in the U.S. The contributors consider how rock has influenced Latin/Latino culture & how it relates to social issues in the region.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.