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Gringos Get Rich
2023
Overview
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 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. .
Publisher
University of Alabama Press,The University of Alabama Press
Subject
ISBN
0817321705, 9780817321703, 0817394672, 0817360972, 9780817360979, 9780817394677
