Table of Contents

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) María Susana Azzi
4. Crossing Borders: Mexican Popular Music in the United States JohnKoegel
5. Viral Creativity: A Memetic approach to the Music of André 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 Romántico: From Cuban Dance to International Popular Song Geogre Torres
9. Iron Lion Zion: Biblical References in the Lyrics of Bob Marley David Moskowitz
10. Volcán + canto = Volcanto: Central American Popular Music in the 1970s and 1980s T. M. Scruggs
11. Rock Chabón: The Contemporary National Rock of Argentina Pablo Vila and Pablo Seman
12. Chica Music: The Andean Cumbia and Urban Popular Culture in Lima, Peru Raúl Romero
13. Doing the Samba on Sunset Boulevard: Carmen Miranda and the Hollywoodization of Latin American Music Walter AaronClark
About the Contributors

About the Author

Walter Aaron Clark is an associate professor of musicology at the University of Kansas. He is the author of Albeniz: Portrait of a Romantic, Isaac Albeniz: A Guideto Research and several articles on Latin American music.