Youth identities and Argentine popular music: beyond tango

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 butrock nacional,cumbiaand romantic music. Chapters examine the music and what the Argentinean youth use it to say about themselves. PABLO FEDERICO SEMÁN is Professor at El Colegio de México. PABLO VILA is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Temple University, USA. INDICE: Introduction; P. Semán&P. Vila Ritual transgression and grotesquerealism in 1990s rock music: an ethnographer among theBersuit;S. Citro 'Rockers': Moral limits in the construction of musical communities;J. Garriga Zucal Cumbia Villera and the End of the Culture of Work in Argentina in the 90s;E.Martín Cumbia and Latin American Migration in Buenos Aires;P. Vila&M. Silba Cumbiavilleraor the complex construction of masculinity and femininity in contemporary Argentina;P. Semán & P. VilaCatholic inflections and female complicities:syncretism in a "fan club" in Buenos Aires;G. Gallo, P. Semán, & C.SpataroPleasurable Surfaces: Sex, Religion and Electronic Music within the 1990-2010 Transition Folds;G. Gallo and P. SemánEvangelical Rock in Buenos Aires;G. Gallo&P.Semán 'RESCATE' and its consequences: culture and religion only insingular;G. Gallo & P. Semán.

• ISBN: 978-0-230-10463-1
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 224
• Fecha Publicación: 16/03/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés