Deborah Pacin Hictor Fernandez-L'Hoeste Eric Zolov
Every nation in the Americas from indigenous Peru to revolutionary Cuba has been touched by the cultural and musical impact of rock. "Rockin Las Americas" 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...
Every nation in the Americas from indigenous Peru to revolutionary Cuba has been touched by the cultural and musical impact of rock. "Rockin Las Am...
Like rap in the United States, bachata began as a music of the poor and dispossessed. Originating in the shantytowns of the Dominican Republic, it reflects the social and economic dislocation of the poorest Dominicans.
Like rap in the United States, bachata began as a music of the poor and dispossessed. Originating in the shantytowns of the Dominican Republic, it ref...
Traces the trajectories of various US Latino musical forms in a globalizing world, examining how the blending of Latin music reflects Latino/a American lives connecting across nations. This title explores the simultaneously powerful, vexing, and stimulating relationship between hybridity, music, and identity.
Traces the trajectories of various US Latino musical forms in a globalizing world, examining how the blending of Latin music reflects Latino/a America...