Music and youth culture in Latin America
Subtitle: identity construction processes from New York to Buenos Aires
By: edited by Pablo Vila
Series: Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music; Currents in Latin American & Iberian music
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780199986279; 9780199986286
Copyright date: 2104
Subjects: Music and youth; Popular music; Identity (Psychology)
Description: Examines the ways in which music is used to advance identity claims in several Latin American countries and among Latinos in the U.S. Individual chapters address the ways in which music provides people with both enjoyment and the tools they use to understand who they are in terms of nationality, region, race, ethnicity, class, gender, and migration status.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Narrative identities and popular music : linguistic discourses and social practices  -- Pablo Vila; title: Past identity : Guillermo Klein, Miguel Zenón and the future of jazz  -- Jairo Moreno; title: Errant surfing : music, YouTube, the role of the web in youth cultures  -- Rossana Reguillo; title: Music and post-communist subjectivities in Cuba  -- Rubén López Cano; title: On whitening and other disaffections : the impact of tropipop on Colombia's music scene  -- Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste; title: Fusion rock bands and the "New Peru" on stage  -- Patricia Oliart; title: Political activists, playboys and hippies : musical movements and symbolic representations of Brazilian youth in the 1960s  -- Marcos Napolitano; title: The Pro Tools generation : digital culture, liveness, and the new sincerity in Brazilian popular music  -- Frederick Moehn; title: A newer tango coming from the past  -- Laura Cambra and Juan Raffo; title: Life trajectories and dejuvenilization in Argentine rock -- Adrián Pablo Fanjul.