Deborah Pacini Hernandez, associate professor of anthropology at Tufts University, is the author of Bachata: A Social History of a Dominican Popular Music.
A fascinating and inspiring collection of essays on rock music's
fifty-year journey through the Americas. Read it to understand that
Anglo-Saxon rock is neither the only rock story nor even the most
interesting (but be warned that it left me with a list of records
that I'll have to spend the rest of my lifetime tracking down).--
"Simon Frith, author of Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular
Music"
Every essay in this book is worth reading, because each offers a
complex reading of thriving and engaging cultural phenomena.--
"College Literature"
From La Onda Chicana in Mexico to doo-wop in revolutionary Cuba,
from Brazilian soul to punk rockeras in East Los Angeles, . . .
[Rockin' Las Americas] offers the most comprehensive and
multidisciplinary analysis of the ways in which rock musics have
embodied the conflicts of the times in Latin America and in Latino
U.S.A.-- "Frances R. Aparicio, author of Listening to Salsa:
Gender, Latin Popular Music, and Puerto Rican Cultures"
Reflects the individual expertise of the contributors as well as
their broad familiarity with international cultural theory. . .
.One of the main strengths [is] the way in which nearly all of the
contributors locate national and local rock artists in larger
transnational flows. . . Chock-full of subtle insights.-- "The
Americas"
The importance of this book resides not only in its revealing
documentation and analysis of rock en espanol, but in its implicit
call for a rewriting of rock history as a global phenomenon from
the outset.-- "Popular Music"
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