Studies in Popular Music
Edited by Julio Mendívil and Christian Spencer Espinosa
January 2016 | Routledge
Introduction
Debating Genre, Class and Identity: Popular Music and Music Scenes from the Latin American World
JULIO MENDÍVIL and CHRISTIAN SPENCER ESPINOSA
Part I: Music Scenes and Historical Issues
1. The Carpas Shows in Mexico City (1900-1930): An Ethno-Historical Perspective to a Musical Scene
NATALIA BIELETTO BUENO
2. Nineteenth Century Spanish American Salon in the Light of Music Scenes
JUAN FRANCISCO SANS
Part II: Imaginaries, Identity, and Politics
3. Representing Ayacucho: Music, Politics, Commerce and Identity in an Andean Music Scene in Lima
JULIO MENDÍVIL4. Imagining Traditions: Performance and Social Imagination in the Urban Cueca Scene in Santiago de Chile (2000–2010)
CHRISTIAN SPENCER ESPINOSA
Part III: Cumbia, Class And Nation
5. “Cumbia, Nena.” Cumbia Scene, Gender and Class in Argentina
PABLO ALABARCES and MALVINA SILBA6. The Ecuadorian Popular Music Scene in Quito: Contesting the National Imaginary
KETTY WONG7. Chicha Music, Urban Subalternity and Cultural Identities in Peru: Construction of the Local and Translocal Scene
ARTURO QUISPE LÁZARO
Part IV: Global Flows
8. Merengue on the Move: Making Music, Place, and Community in the Típico World
SYDNEY HUTCHINSON9. The Geopolitics of Queer Tango: From Buenos Aires to a Community of Translocal Practice
MARÍA MERCEDES LISKA10. Otavalan Transnational Music Making: The Andean Music Scene in Japan
MICHELLE WIBBELSMAN