Introduction : mapping rock music cultures across the Americas / Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Héctor Fernández l'Hoeste, and Eric Zolov -- La onda chicana : Mexico's forgotten rock counterculture / Eric Zolov -- Between rock and a hard place : negotiating rock in revolutionary Cuba, 1960-1980 / Deborah Pacini Hernandez and Reebee Garofalo -- Black pau : uncovering the history of Brazilian soul / Bryan Mccann -- Boricua rock : Puerto Rican by necessity! / Jorge Arévalo Mateus -- The politics and anti-politics of Uruguayan rock / Abril Trigo -- "A contra corriente" : a history of women rockers in Mexico / Julia Palacios and Tere Estrada -- "Soy punkera, y qué?" : sexuality, translocality, and punk in Los Angeles and beyond / Michelle Habell-Pallán -- On how Bloque de Búsqueda lost part of its name : the predicament of Colombian rock in the U.S. market / Héctor D. Fernández-l'Hoeste -- Let me sing my BRock : learning to listen to Brazilian rock / Martha Tupinambá de Ulhôa -- Guatemala's Alux Nahual : a non-"Latin American" Latin American rock group? / Paulo Alvarado -- My generation : rock and la banda's forced survival opposite the Mexican state / Héctor Castillo Berthier -- Neoliberalism and rock in the popular sector in contemporary Argentina / Pablo Semán, Pablo Vila, and Cecilia Benedetti -- A detour to the past : memory and mourning in Chilean post-authoritarian rock / Walescka Pino-Ojeda -- The Nortec edge : border traditions and "electronica" in Tijuana / Susana Asensio -- Esperando la última ola / waiting for the last wave : Manu Chao and the music of globalization -- Josh Kun.