Songs of Life and Hope. Cantos de vida y esperanza, and: Altazor, or A Voyage in a Parachute. Poem in VII Cantos (review)
Charly Garcia, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Cazuza and Lenine, just to name a few. Occasionally, the temptation to theorize national and diasporic sidebars (with ample quotes from such scholars as Renato Ortiz, Jesus Martin-Barbero and Simon Frith) eclipses more central issues of the genre's musical transmutations and abiding popularity in the region. Given that the book's audience encompasses some hardcore fans but also, no doubt, a great number of readers relatively unfamiliar with some or all of the national headliners, a slightly more didactic approach in some cases would have been helpful.