Youth Identities and Argentine Popular Music: Beyond Tango [Paperback]

This book analyzes the music that young porte?as/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.IntroductionPablo Sem?n and Pablo Vila * Ritual transgression and grotesque realism in 1990s rock music: an ethnographer among the BersuitSilvia Citro * 'Rockers': Moral limits in the construction of musical communitiesJos? Garriga Zucal * Cumbia Villera and the end of the work culture in Argentina in the 90'sEloisa Mart?n * Cumbia and Latin-American migration in Buenos Aires, Argentina: Identity negotiation processes in two ethnic/national dance hallsPablo Vila and Malvina Silba * Cumbia villera or the complex construction of masculinity and femininity in contemporary ArgentinaPablo Sem?n and Pablo Vila * Catholic inflections and female complicities: Syncretism in a "fan club" in Buenos Aires - Guadalupe Gallo, Pablo Sem?n, and Carolina Spataro * Pleasurable Surfaces: Sex, Religion and Electronic Music within the 1990-2010 transition foldsGuadalupe Gallo and Pablo Sem?n * 'RESCATE' and its consequences: Culture and religion only in singular - Guadalupe Gallo and Pablo Sem?n

An intriguing exploration of multiple conjunctures and disjunctures in the unpredictable relationships between identity and music, the chapters in this volume consistently surprise the reader by demonstrating how endless innovation and creativity produce unexpected musical fusions, which nevertheless 'make sense' when seen in retrospect and from the point of view of the music-makers and their audiences. - Peter Wade, author of Music, Race and Nation: M?sica Tropical in Colombia