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Title Rockin' las Américas : the global politics of rock in Latin/o America / edited by Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Héctor Fernández-L'Hoeste, and Eric Zolov
Published Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 420 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Illuminations : cultural formations of the Americas
Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
University of Pittsburgh Digital Editions. PPiU
University of Pittsburgh Digital Collections. PPiU
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-403) and index
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Subject Rock music -- Political aspects -- Latin America
Rock music -- Social aspects -- Latin America
MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
MUSIC -- General.
Rock music -- Political aspects
Rock music -- Social aspects
Rockmusik
Music.
Music, Dance, Drama & Film.
Music Philosophy.
Rock (aspectos políticos;aspectos culturais;história) -- América latina.
Sociologia da música.
Latin America
Lateinamerika
Form Electronic book
Author Pacini Hernandez, Deborah, editor.
Fernández l'Hoeste, Héctor D., 1962- editor.
Zolov, Eric, editor.
LC no. 2003027604
ISBN 9780822972556
0822972557