Cumbia!: Scenes of a Migrant Latin American Music Genre
- Editor: Fernandez L'Hoeste, Hector D.
- Editor: Vila, Pablo
The clear, simple language makes the essays accessible, and contributors are to be commended for their excellent presentations...Highly recommended." -- K. W. Mukuna —
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Contents
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction / Hector Fernandez L'Hoeste and Pablo Vila 1
- 1. Cumbia Music in Colombia: Origins, Transformations, and Evolution of a Coastal Music Genre / Leonardo D'Amico 29
- 2. ?Pa' donde vas Marioneta? ?Pa' donde va la gaita?: La Cumbiamba Eneye Returns to San Jacinto / Jorge Arevalo Mateus with Martin Vejarano 49
- 3. Cumbia in Mexico's Northeastern Region / Jose Juan Olvera Gudino 87
- 4. Rigo Tovar, Cumbia, and the Transnational Grupero Boom / Alejandro L. Madrid 105
- 5. Communicating the Collective Imagination: The Sociospatial World of the Mexican Sonidero in Puebla, New York and New Jersey / Cathy Ragland 119
- 6. From The World of the Poor to the Beaches of Eisha: , Cumbia, and the Search for a Popular Subject in Peru / Joshua Tucker 138
- 7. Pandillar in the Jungle: Regionalism and Tecno-cumbia in Amazonian Peru / Kathryn Metz 168
- 8. Gender Tensions in Cumbia Villera's Lyrics / Pablo Seman and Pablo Vila 188
- 9. Feliz, feliz / Cristian Alarcon 213
- 10. El "Tu" Tropical, el "Vos" Villero, and Places in Between: Language, Ideology, Music, and the Spatialization of Difference in Uruguayan Tropical Music / Matthew J. Van Hoose 226
- 11. On Music and Colombianness: Toward a Critique of the History of Cumbia / Hector Fernandez L'Hoeste 248
- References 269
- Contributors 285
- Index 289