Introduction; Frances R. Aparicio & Candida F. Jaquez - PART I: CARIBBEAN TRANSNATIONALISMS - Amalgamating Musics: Popular Music and Cultural Hybridity in the Americas / Deborah Pacini-Hernandez -- La Cuba de Ayer/La Cuba de Hoy : The Politics of Music in the Cuban-American Community / Gema R. Guevara -- Con Sabor a Puerto Rico : the Reception and Influence of Puerto Rican Salsa in Venezuela / Marisol Berríos-Miranda -- Le Français dans la Rue : Caribbean Music, Language, and the African Diaspora / James A. Winders -- Popular Music and Culture in Puerto Rico: Jamaican and Rap Music as Cross-Cultural Symbols / Jorge L. Giovannetti -- Mambo Kings to West African Textiles : A Synesthetic Approach to Black Atlantic Aesthetics / Paul Austerlitz -- PART II: CULTURAL HYBRIDITY IN THE AMERICAS: Musical Frontiers in Martín Fierro / Bridget M. Morgan -- Jose María Arguedas's Representation of la Danza de las Tijeras : A Contribution to the Formation of Andean Culture / Juan Zevallos-Aguilar ; translated by María Elena Cepeda -- Tradition and Modernity in Trinidadian Steelband Performance / Shannon Dudley -- El Mariachi : Musical Repertoire as Sociocultural Investment / Candida F. Jaquez -- Rock con Raza, Raza con Jazz : Latinos/as and Post-World War II Popular American Music / Anthony Macías -- Rock'n'Roll in Peru's Popular Quarters : Cultural Identity, Hybridity, and Transculturation; Luis A. Ramos-García ; translated by María Elena Cepeda

The transcultural impact of Latin American musical forms in the United States calls for a deeper understanding of the shifting cultural meanings of music. This is a collection of essays on the transnational circulation and changing social meanings of Latin music across the Americas