From Tejano to Tango

Preface: Of Borders and Boundaries Walter Aaron Clark
1. "Give Your Body Joy, Macarena": Aspects of U.S. Participation in the Dance Craze of the 90s MelindaRussell
2. Music and Place in the Brazilian Popular Imagination: The Interplay of Local and Global in the Mangue Bit Movement of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil PhilipA. Galinsky
3. The Tango, Astor Piazzola, and Peronism (1940s-1955) Maria Susana Azzi
4. Crossing Borders: Mexican Popular Music in the United States JohnKoegel
5. Viral Creativity: A Memetic approach to the Music of Andre Abujamra and Karnak John Murphy
6. The Popularized Gaucho Image as a Source of Argentine Classical Music, 1880-1920 Deborah Schwartz-Kates
7. A Chicano in a Cuban Band: Okan Ise and Songo in Los Angeles javier Pacheco
8. The Bolero Romantico: From Cuban Dance to International Popular Song Geogre Torres
9. Iron Lion Zion: Biblical References in the Lyrics of Bob Marley David Moskowitz
10. Volcan + canto = Volcanto: Central American Popular Music in the 1970s and 1980s T. M. Scruggs
11. Rock Chabon: The Contemporary National Rock of Argentina Pablo Vila and Pablo Seman
12. Chica Music: The Andean Cumbia and Urban Popular Culture in Lima, Peru Raul Romero
13. Doing the Samba on Sunset Boulevard: Carmen Miranda and the Hollywoodization of Latin American Music Walter AaronClark
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