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Article: Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Hector Fernandez L'Hoeste, and Eric Zolov, editors Rockin' Las Americas: The Global Politics of Rock in Latin/o America.(Book review)
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- Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
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- January 1, 2006
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Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Hector Fernandez L'Hoeste, and Eric Zolov, editors Rockin' Las Americas: The Global Politics of Rock in Latin/o America Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004, 420 pp.
The number of recent additions to the English-language bibliography on popular music in Latin America is an indication of just how much academic interest in this field has expanded. Within this group of publications, Rockin' Las Americas stands out as a book with several claims to uniqueness. As George Yudice acknowledges in his Afterword, it is "the first comprehensive study of the various rock and rock-inflected musics in Latin and Latino America" (347). As ...