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Gringos Get Rich - Anti-Americanism in Chilean Music Loot Price: R923
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Gringos Get Rich - Anti-Americanism in Chilean Music: Eunice Rojas

Gringos Get Rich - Anti-Americanism in Chilean Music

Eunice Rojas

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Documents counterimperialism in Chilean music since the 1960s Gringos Get Rich: Anti-Americanism in Chilean Music examines anti-Americanism in Latin America as manifested in Chilean music in recent history. From a folk-based movement in the 1960s and early 1970s to underground punk rock groups during the Pinochet regime, to socially conscious hip-hop artists of postdictatorship Chile, Chilean music has followed several left-leaning transnational musical trends to grapple with Chile’s fluctuating relationship with the United States. Eunice Rojas’s innovative analysis introduces US readers to a wide swath of Chilean musicians and their powerful protest songs and provides a representative and long view of the negative influences of the United States in Latin America. Much of the criticism of the United States in Chile’s music centers on the perception of the United States as a heavy-handed source of capitalist imperialism that is exploitative of and threatening to Chile’s poor and working-class public and to Chilean cultural independence and integrity. Rojas incorporates Antonio Gramsci’s theories about the difficulties of struggles for cultural power within elitist capitalist systems to explore anti-Americanism and anti-capitalist music. Ultimately, Rojas shows how the music from various genres, time periods, and political systems attempts to act as a counterhegemonic alternative to Chile’s political, cultural, and economic status quo. Rojas’s insight is timely as a political trend toward the right continues in the Americas. There is also increased interest in and acceptance of popular song lyrics as literary texts. The book will appeal to Latin Americanists, ethnomusicologists, scholars of popular culture and international relations, students, and general readers.

General

Imprint: The University of Alabama Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: November 2023
Authors: Eunice Rojas
Dimensions: 229 x 152mm (L x W)
Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 978-0-8173-6097-9
Categories: Books
LSN: 0-8173-6097-2
Barcode: 9780817360979

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