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mods: Musical imagiNation U.S.-Colombian identity and the Latin music boom Cepeda, María Elena creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History nyu New York New York University Press ©2010 2010 monographic eng remote 1 online resource (xii, 255 pages) : illustrations, maps Long associated with the pejorative clichés of the drug-trafficking trade and political violence, contemporary Colombia has been unfairly stigmatized. In this pioneering study of the Miami music industry and Miami's growing Colombian community, María Elena Cepeda boldly asserts that popular music provides an alternative common space for imagining and enacting Colombian identity. Using an interdisciplinary analysis of popular media, music, and music video, Cepeda teases out issues of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and transnational identity in the Latino/a music industry and among its most renowned rock en español, pop, and vallenato stars.Musical ImagiNation provides an overview of the ongoing Colombian political and economic crisis and the dynamics of Colombian immigration to metropolitan Miami. More notably, placed in this context, the book discusses the creative work and media personas of talented Colombian artists Shakira, Andrea Echeverri of Aterciopelados, and Carlos Vives. In her examination of the transnational figures and music that illuminate the recent shifts in the meanings attached to Colombian identity both in the United States and Latin America, Cepeda argues that music is a powerful arbitrator of memory and transnational identity. La crisis colombiana: contextualizing the political moment -- A Miami sound machine: deconstructing the Latin(o) music boom of the Late 1990s -- Shakira as the Idealized transnational citizen: media perspectives on Colombianidad in transition -- Florecita Rockera: gender and representation in Latin(o) American rock and mainstream media -- The Colombian vallenato acá y allá : allegory for a musical ImagiNation -- T…