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Author Vila, Pablo, 1952- author.

Title Troubling gender : youth and cumbia in Argentina's music scene / Pablo Vila and Pablo Semán with contributions by Eloísa Martín and María Julia Carozzi
Published Philadelphia, Pa. : Temple University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 217 pages)
Contents The history : trajectory and consolidation of the cumbia in the field of Argentine music / Eloísa Martín (translated by Pablo Vila) -- The lyrics -- What boys have to say -- What girls have to say
Summary 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 having 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. Addressing the relationship between this form of music and the wider social, political, and economic changes that influence the lives of urban youth, Troubling Gender argues that the music both reflects and influences the ways in which women's and men's roles are changing in Argentine society
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-211) and index
Notes English
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Subject Popular music -- Argentina -- History and criticism
Cumbia (Music) -- Argentina -- History and criticism
Popular music -- Social aspects -- Argentina
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Cumbia (Music)
Popular music
Popular music -- Social aspects
Argentina
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Semán, Pablo, author
Martín, Eloísa
Carozzi, María Julia
LC no. 2011006798
ISBN 9781439902684
1439902682
1283244659
9781283244657
9786613244659
6613244651