Cumbia music in Colombia: origins, transformations, and evolution of a coastal music genre / Leonardo D'Amico -- ¿Pa' dónde vas Marioneta? ¿Pa' donde va la gaita? : la Cumbiamba Eneyé returns to San Jacinto / Jorge Arévalo Mateus with Martín Vejarano -- Cumbia in Mexico's northeastern region / José Juan Olvera Gudiño -- Rigo Tovar, cumbia, and the transnational grupero boom / Alejandro L. Madrid -- Communicating the collective imagination : the sociospatial world of the Mexican sonidero in Puebla, New York and New Jersey / Cathy Ragland -- From the world of the poor to the beaches of Eisha : chicha, cumbia, and the search for a popular subject in Peru / Joshua Tucker -- Pandillar in the jungle : regionalism and tecno-cumbia in Amazonian Peru / Kathryn Metz -- Gender tensions in Cumbia villera's lyrics / Pablo Semán and Pablo Vila -- Feliz, feliz / Cristian Alarcón -- El "tú" tropical, el "vos" villero, and places in between : language, ideology, music, and the spatialization of difference in Uruguayan tropical music / Matthew J. Van Hoose -- On music and Colombianness : toward a critique of the history of cumbia / Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste.