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From: "H. D. Fernández L'Hoeste" <[log in to unmask]>

CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS
for an edited volume
Rockin' las Americas: The Global Politics of Rock in Latin America

Edited by Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Hector D. Fernandez L'Hoeste, & Eric
Zolov

	If it is undeniable that rock and roll originated in the United
States, popular music scholars have far too often ethnocentrically assumed
that the "rock and roll revolution" was solely a US/West European
phenomenon. Yet simultaneous with rock and roll's inception in the 1950s,
the music and youth culture it spawned was also transported to other
English and non-English speaking countries around the world.  Latin
America was especially receptive to this transnational process.  
Throughout Latin America rock and roll (and later, rock) was embraced by
growing middle class youth populations in the 1960s, and by the 1980s rock
was also claimed by working and lumpen proletariat youth.  Over time,
vigorous nationally-identified rock and roll scenes have developed
throughout the Americas, following similar yet divergent trajectories, and
transforming the region's cultural landscape in profound ways;
contemporary Latin/o American rock has its origins in these historical
processes.  No nation, from revolutionary Cuba to indigenous Ecuador, has
been exempt from the cultural impact of rock, yet to date there are very
few studies that seek to catalogue and explore these phenomena and none
that offers to do so comparatively.  This volume will address that
important gap.

	The editors are seeking essays from different disciplinary
perspectives that explore the complex dynamics of the contemporary rock en
espanol phenomena.  We are especially interested in articles analyzing the
implications of rock's current location within the cultural landscapes of
transnational communities, global capitalism, and the intersecting
discourses and practices of regional and national identities.  We are
looking for papers that cover the "politics of rock" (in a cultural,
political, and material sense), from a variety of national contexts while
addressing questions of production (e.g. trasnational/local),
dissemination (e.g. mass media/underground), and consumption
(class/race/ethnic/gender/generational dynamics).  We anticipate that
these articles will simultaneously place their discussion within a
historical context.  Essays offering strictly historical perspectives on
the development of rock in different Latin American countries will also be
considered, though we would expect these essays to address the
contemporary implications of the movement(s) they discuss.

	Questions that might be addressed include (but are not limited
to): How has rock music, a transnational phenomenon originating in the
United States, been resignified in other national contexts?  In what ways
does Latin American rock serve as a medium for expressing one's national
identity (for example, by drawing on local musical/cultural/political
inventions) and how is that expression shaped by rock's links to global
networks of communication?  How are the tensions between desires for local
belonging (to the nation, one's barrio, class, etc.) negotiated with
desires for cosmopolitan belonging-especially given that "local" often
means dealing with the politics of poverty and repression while
"cosmopolitan" means engaging, in one form or another, the influence of
the United States? Can there be a national rock in a transnational era?

	Other topics that would be of interest might include essays
offering Latin American perspectives on issues or themes that have engaged
English-language rock scholars.  For example, what do the terms "rock" and
"rock and roll" mean in Latin American contexts-are distinctions made
between between these two categories, and if so, what criteria are such
distinctions based on?  How do Latin Americans interpret those subgenres
of rock-from rhythm and blues to soul to disco to rap-that have
historically been associated with African Americans?  In what ways does
Latin American rock confirm or challenge the sort of racialized and class
associations characteristic of rock and its subgenres in the U.S?

	While the primary focus of this volume is on rock en espanol in
Latin American contexts, we will also entertain essays on related topics,
for example, essays on Brazilian rock or those exploring rock's
relationship to local/national/transnational popular music genres which
have competed with, been built upon, or developed in opposition to rock
(e.g. cumbia, banda, salsa, nueva cancion, world beat).  Similarly,
articles on appropriations/transformations of rock and roll, such as
reggae and rap en espanol, may also be included, provided the author
explicitly addresses their relationship with rock.  Finally, articles
which explore the growing impact of Latino audiences in the United States
on rock music will also be considered.

	Brief (1-2 pages) synopses of proposed manucripts and c.v. should
be submitted to each of the editors (see emails below) by January 1, 2001.
The editors prefer manuscripts submitted in English but are willing to
work with authors to arrange translation from other languages.

Deborah Pacini Hernandez ([log in to unmask]) Associate
professor of Anthropology, Brown University.  Author of Bachata: A Social
History of a Dominican Popular Music (1995) and other articles on Spanish
Caribbean and Latino popular music. Hector Fernandez L'Hoeste
([log in to unmask]) Assistant professor of Spanish, Georgia State
University in Atlanta. Author of Narrativas de representación urbana
(1998) and other articles on Latin American cinema and theory. Eric Zolov
([log in to unmask]) Assistant professor of History, Franklin &
Marshall College.  Author of Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican
Counterculture (1999) and co-editor of Fragments of a Golden Age: The
Politics of Culture in Mexico Since 1940 (2001).


Héctor D. Fernández L'Hoeste
Assistant professor of Spanish
Dept. of Modern & Classical Languages
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA 30303-3083
USA
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
URL: http://www.gsu.edu/~forhdf/



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