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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Alabama Press

ISBN-100817360972

ISBN-139780817360979

eBay Product ID (ePID)3059118831

Product Key Features

Number of Pages244 Pages

Publication NameGringos Get Rich : Anti-Americanism in Chilean Music

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2023

SubjectHistory & Criticism, Genres & Styles / International, Latin America / General

TypeTextbook

AuthorEunice Rojas

Subject AreaMusic, History

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height1 in

Item Weight13 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2023-008504

Reviews"This is an original account of how one country sings against another country whose musical, imperial, and imaginary influences shaped its national songbook. And by analyzing the image of the United States in Chile's unique popular poetics, the book stimulates in the reader's mind and ears other musical dialogues across the region and the world." --Pablo Palomino, author of The Invention of Latin American Music: A Transnational History "The United States has long exercised outsized influence over Latin America. Chile's songwriters struck back, says Eunice Rojas. Artists from Violeta Parra to CoN$PiRaCióN took gringos to task for backing a dictator, numbing Chileans with television, and, yes, getting rich off their resources. In nueva canción, punk, hip-hop, and more, a Gramscian counter-hegemonic consciousness arose--and survives in Chile's recent protests. Rojas's deep and insightful reading is a triumph of textual analysis." --Alan McPherson, author of Ghosts of Sheridan Circle: How a Washington Assassination Brought Pinochet's Terror State to Justice, "This is an original account of how one country sings against another country whose musical, imperial, and imaginary influences shaped its national songbook. And by analyzing the image of the United States in Chile's unique popular poetics, the book stimulates in the reader's mind and ears other musical dialogues across the region and the world." --Pablo Palomino, author of The Invention of Latin American Music: A Transnational History, "This is an original account of how one country sings against another country whose musical, imperial, and imaginary influences shaped its national songbook. And by analyzing the image of the United States in Chile's unique popular poetics, the book stimulates in the reader's mind and ears other musical dialogues across the region and the world." --Pablo Palomino, author of The Invention of Latin American Music: A Transnational History "The United States has long exercised outsized influence over Latin America. Chile's songwriters struck back, says Eunice Rojas. Artists from Violeta Parra to CoN$PiRaCióN took gringos to task for backing a dictator, numbing Chileans with television, and, yes, getting rich off their resources. In nueva canción, punk, hip-hop, and more, a Gramscian counter-hegemonic consciousness arose--and survives in Chile's recent protests. Rojas's deep and insightful reading is a triumph of textual analysis." --Alan McPherson is the Thomas J. Freaney, Jr. professor of history and the Wachman director at the Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy at Temple University.

Dewey Decimal782.421640983

SynopsisDocuments 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 with recent political trends toward the right 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. ., 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.

LC Classification NumberML3917.C5R64 2023