Rockin' Las Americas

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

• ISBN13: 9780822958413
• ISBN10: 0822958414
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

Summary

Every nation in the Americas-from indigenous Peru to revolutionary Cuba-has been touched by the cultural and musical impact of rock.Rockinrs" Las Ameacute;ricasis 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? Rockinrs" Las Ameacute;ricas is an essential book for anyone who hopes to understand the complexities of Latin American culture today.

Author Biography

Deborah Pacini Hernandez is associate professor of anthropology at Tufts University Hector Fernandez L'Hoeste is associate professor of Spanish at Georgia State University Eric Zolov is associate professor of Latin American history at Franklin & Marshall College

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Mapping Rock Music Cultures across the Americas	1	(21)
Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste, and Eric Zolov
La Onda Chicana: Mexico's Forgotten Rock Counterculture	22	(21)
Eric Zolov
Between Rock and a Hard Place: Negotiating Rock in Revolutionary Cuba, 1960-1980	43	(25)
Deborah Pacini Hernandez and Reebee Garofalo
Black Pau: Uncovering the History of Brazilian Soul	68	(23)
Bryan McCann
Boricua Rock: Puerto Rican by Necessity!	91	(24)
Jorge Arévalo Mateus
The Politics and Anti-Politics of Uruguayan Rock	115	(27)
Abril Trigo
"A contra corriente": A History of Women Rockers in Mexico	142	(18)
Julia Palacios and Tere Estrada
"Soy punkera, ¿y qué?": Sexuality, Translocality, and Punk in Los Angeles and Beyond	160	(19)
Michelle Habell-Pallán
On How Bloque de Búsqueda Lost Part of Its Name: The Predicament of Colombian Rock in the U.S. Market	179	(21)
Héctor D. Fernández L'Hoeste
Let Me Sing My BRock: Learning to Listen to Brazilian Rock	200	(20)
Martha Tupinambá de Ulhôa
Guatemala's Alux Nahual: A Non-"Latin American" Latin American Rock Group?	220	(21)
Paulo Alvarado
My Generation: Rock and la Banda's Forced Survival Opposite the Mexican State	241	(20)
Héctor Castillo Berthier
Neoliberalism and Rock in the Popular Sectors of Contemporary Argentina	261	(29)
Pablo Semán, Pablo Vila, and Cecilia Benedetti
A Detour to the Past: Memory and Mourning in Chilean Post-Authoritarian Rock	290	(22)
Walescka Pino-Ojeda
The Nortec Edge: Border Traditions and "Electronica" in Tijuana	312	(20)
Susana Asensio
Esperando La Última Ola I Waiting for the Last Wave: Mann Chao and the Music of Globalization	332	(15)
Josh Kun
Afterword: A Changeable Template of Rock in Las Américas	347	(10)
George Yúdice
Appendix: Rock in Latin America, 1940-2000	357	(6)
Notes	363	(32)
Selected Bibliography	395	(10)
Contributors	405	(4)
Index	409