Full Description
This book analyzes the music that young porteñas/os (the inhabitants of Buenos Aires, Argentina) actually listen to nowadays, which, contrary to well-entrenched stereotypes, is not tango but rock nacional, cumbiaand romantic music. Chapters examine the music and what the Argentinean youth use it to say about themselves.
Contents
Introduction—Pablo Semán and Pablo Vila * Ritual transgression and grotesque realism in 1990s rock music: an ethnographer among the Bersuit—Silvia Citro * 'Rockers': Moral limits in the construction of musical communities—José Garriga Zucal * Cumbia Villera and the end of the work culture in Argentina in the 90's—Eloisa Martín * Cumbia and Latin-American migration in Buenos Aires, Argentina: Identity negotiation processes in two ethnic/national dance halls—Pablo Vila and Malvina Silba * Cumbia villera or the complex construction of masculinity and femininity in contemporary Argentina—Pablo Semán and Pablo Vila * Catholic inflections and female complicities: Syncretism in a "fan club" in Buenos Aires - Guadalupe Gallo, Pablo Semán, and Carolina Spataro * Pleasurable Surfaces: Sex, Religion and Electronic Music within the 1990-2010 transition folds—Guadalupe Gallo and Pablo Semán * 'RESCATE' and its consequences: Culture and religion only in singular - Guadalupe Gallo and Pablo Semán
