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Youth and Cumbia in
Argentina's Music Scene
Pablo Vila & Pablo
Seman & Eloisa Martin Maria Julia Carozzi
Cumbia villera--literally, cumbia from the shantytowns--is a musical genre quite popular with Argentine youth who frequent urban dance halls. Its songs are known for their highly sexualized lyrics--about girls dancing provocatively or experiencing erotic pleasure. The songs exhibit the tensions at play in the different ways people relate to this musical genre. In Troubling Gender, noted sociologists Pablo Vila and Pablo Semán scrutinize the music’s lyrics and the singers’ and dancers’ performances. At the same time, the authors conduct in depth-interviews to examine the ways males construct and appropriate cumbia’s lyrics, and how females identify, appropriate, and playfully and critically manipulate the same misogynistic songs.
Temple University Press
September 2011 248pp 9781439902677 PB £17.99 now only £12.50 when you quote CSPV0911TG when you order