Full Description
Music is one of the most distinctive cultural characteristics of Latin American countries. But, while many people in the United States and Europe are familiar with musical genres such as salsa, merengue, and reggaeton, the musical manifestations that young people listen to in most Latin American countries are much more varied than these commercially successful ones that have entered the American and European markets. Not only that, the young people themselves often have little in common with the stereotypical image of them that exists in the American imagination.
Bridging this divide between perception and reality, Music and Youth Culture in Latin America brings together contributors from throughout Latin America and the US to examine the ways in which music is used to advance identity claims in several Latin American countries and among Latinos in the US. From young Latin American musicians who want to participate in the vibrant jazz scene of New York without losing their cultural roots, to Peruvian rockers who sing in their native language (Quechua) for the same reasons, to the young Cubans who use music to construct a post-communist social identification, this volume sheds new light on the complex ways in which music provides people from different countries and social sectors with both enjoyment and tools for understanding who they are in terms of nationality, region, race, ethnicity, class, gender, and migration status. Drawing on a vast array of fields including popular music studies, ethnomusicology, sociology, and history, Music and Youth Culture in Latin America is an illuminating read for anyone interested in Latin American music, culture, and society.
Contents
Acknowledgements ; Introduction ; Pablo Vila ; Chapter 1: Narrative Identities and Popular Music: Linguistic Discourses ; and Social Practices ; Pablo Vila ; Chapter 2: Past Identity: Guillermo Klein, Miguel Zenon and the Future ; of Jazz ; Jairo Moreno ; Chapter 03: Errant surfing. Music, YouTube, the role of the Web in ; Youth Cultures ; Rossana Reguillo ; Chapter 04: Music and Post-Communist Subjectivities in Cuba ; Ruben Lopez Cano ; Chapter 05: On Whitening and other Disaffections: The ; Impact of Tropipop on Colombia's Music Scene ; Hector Fernandez L'Hoeste ; Chapter 06: Fusion Rock Bands and the " on Stage ; Patricia Oliart ; Chapter 07: Political activists, playboys and hippies: musical ; movements and symbolic representations of Brazilian youth in the 1960s ; Marcos Napolitano ; Chapter 08: The Pro Tools Generation. Digital Culture, Liveness, ; and the New Sincerity in Brazilian Popular Music ; Frederick Moehn ; Chapter 09: A Newer Tango Coming from the Past ; Laura Cambra and Juan Raffo ; Chapter 10: Life Trajectories and Dejuvenilization in Argentine ; Rock ; Adrian Pablo Fanjul
