Cumbia!: Scenes of a Migrant Latin American Music Genre

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Pablo Vila 1 Chapter 1. Cumbia Music in Colombia: Origins, Transformations, and Evolution of a Coastal Music Genre Leonardo D’Amico 29 Chapter 2. ¿Pa’ dónde vas Marioneta? ¿Pa’ dónde va la gaita? La Cumbiamba Eneyé Returns to San Jacinto Jorge Arévalo Mateus with Martín Vejarano 49 Chapter 3. Cumbia in Mexico’s Northeastern Region José Juan Olvera Gudiño 87 Chapter 4. Rigo Tovar, Cumbia, and the Transnational Grupero Boom Alejandro L. Madrid 105 Chapter 5. Communicating the Collective Imagination: The Sociospatial World of the Mexican Sonidero in Puebla, New York, and New Jersey Cathy Ragland 119 Chapter 6. From The World of the Poor to the Beaches of Eisha: Chicha, Cumbia, and the Search for a Popular Subject in Peru Joshua Tucker 138 Chapter 7. Pandillar in the Jungle: Regionalism and Tecno-­cumbia in Amazonian Peru Kathryn Metz 168 Chapter 8. Gender Tensions in Cumbia Villera’s Lyrics Pablo Semán and Pablo Vila 188 Chapter 9. Feliz, feliz Cristian Alarcón 213 viii Contents Chapter 10. El “Tú” 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 Chapter 11. On Music and Colombianness: Toward a Critique of the History of Cumbia Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste 248 References 269 Contributors 285 Index 289 ...