Chapter 8. Gender Tensions in Cumbia Villera’s Lyrics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1. Cumbia Music in Colombia: Origins, Transformations, and Evolution of a Coastal Music Genre 29
6. Chapter 2. ¿Pa’ dónde vas Marioneta? ¿Pa’ dónde va la gaita? La Cumbiamba Eneyé Returns to San Jacinto 49
7. Chapter 3. Cumbia in Mexico’s Northeastern Region 87
8. Chapter 4. Rigo Tovar, Cumbia, and the Transnational Grupero Boom 105
9. Chapter 5. Communicating the Collective Imagination: The Sociospatial World of the Mexican Sonidero in Puebla, New York, and New Jersey 119
10. Chapter 6. From The World of the Poor to the Beaches of Eisha: Chicha, Cumbia, and the Search for a Popular Subject in Peru 138
11. Chapter 7. Pandillar in the Jungle: Regionalism and Tecno-cumbia in Amazonian Peru 168
12. Chapter 8. Gender Tensions in Cumbia Villera’s Lyrics 188
13. Chapter 9. Feliz, feliz 213
14. Chapter 10. El “Tú” Tropical, el “Vos” Villero, and Places in Between: Language, Ideology, Music, and the Spatialization of Difference in Uruguayan Tropical Music 226
15. Chapter 11. On Music and Colombianness: Toward a Critique of the History of Cumbia 248
16. References 269
17. Contributors 285
18. Index 289