From tejano to tango
Subtitle: Latin American popular music
By: edited by Walter Aaron Clark
Contributors: Clark, Walter Aaron
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: Popular music -- Latin America -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Politics and identity, Argentina and Nicaragua.  The popularized gaucho image as a source of Argentine classical music, 1880-1920 / Deborah Schwartz-Kates ; The tango, Peronism and Astor Piazzolla during the 1940s and '50s / María Susana Azzi ; Socially conscious music forming the social conscience : Nicaraguan Música Testimonial and the creation of a revolutionary moment / T.M. Scruggs ; Rock chabón : the contemporary national rock of Argentina / Pablo Semán and Pablo Vila; title: Locality and interlocality, North America and Cuba.  Crossing borders : Mexicana, Tejana and Chicana musicians in the United States and Mexico / John Koegel ; A Chicano in a Cuban band : Okan Ise and songo in Los Angeles / Javier Barrales Pacheco ; The bolero romántico : from Cuban dance to international popular song / George Torres ; "Give your body joy, Macarena" : aspects of U.S. participation in the "Latin" dance craze of the 1990s / Melinda Russell; title: Globalization and mass mediation, Brazil and Peru.  Music and place in the Brazilian popular imagination : the interplay of local and global in the mangue bit movement of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil / Philip Galinsky ; Popular music and the global city : Huayno, Chicha and Techno-cumbia in Lima / Raúl R. Romero ; Viral creativity : a memetic approach to the music of André Abujamra and Karnak / John Murphy ; Doing the Samba on Sunset Boulevard : Carmen Miranda and the Hollywoodization of Latin American music / Walter Aaron Clark