Youth identities and Argentine popular music beyond tango

"This book is about the music that young portenas/os (the inhabitants of Buenos Aires, Argentina) actually listen to nowadays. Departing from a well entrenched stereotype that equates Buenos Aires with tango, this collection of essays shows that few native Argentines listen to this musical genre on a daily basis, and even fewer dance tango. Based on extensive field work individual chapters address the ways in which cumbia, rock nacional, and romantic music provide young people from different social sectors with both enjoyment and the tools they use for understanding who they are in the aftermath of the traumatic neoliberal experience that brought the country to near total collapse in the early days of the present century. -- Publisher description."
"What are the main music preferences among the youth in Argentina? How do these preferences fit into Argentinean society, culture, and politics? The essays in this volume show how religion, class, ethnic, and gender issues in Argentina are constructed and negotiated through a variety of musical practices. Rock, cumbia, and romantic music elaborate gender, sexual, class, and ethnic identities for young people, whose socio-musical life goes beyond the traditional stereotypes of Argentina, tango, and passion."@en