Cumbia!

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction / Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste and Pablo Vila 1

1. Cumbia Music in Colombia: Origins, Transformations, and Evolution of a Coastal Music Genre / Leonardo D'Amico 29

2. ¿Pa' dónde vas Marioneta? ¿Pa' dónde va la gaita?: La Cumbiamba Eneyé Returns to San Jacinto / Jorge Arévalo Mateus with Martín Vejarano 49

3. Cumbia in Mexico's Northeastern Region / José Juan Olvera Gudiño 87

4. Rigo Tovar, Cumbia, and the Transnational Grupero Boom / Alejandro L. Madrid 105

5. Communicating the Collective Imagination: The Sociospatial World of the Mexican Sonidero in Puebla, New York and New Jersey / Cathy Ragland 119

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

7. Pandillar in the Jungle: Regionalism and Tecno-cumbia in Amazonian Peru / Kathryn Metz 168

8. Gender Tensions in Cumbia Villera's Lyrics / Pablo Semán and Pablo Vila 188

9. Feliz, feliz / Cristian Alarcón 213

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

11. On Music and Colombianness: Toward a Critique of the History of Cumbia / Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste 248

References 269

Contributors 285

Index 289