Viva Rockotitlán

“Outstanding. Viva Rockotitlán promises to open up a field of research that bridges US and Mexican academia and will undoubtedly entertain, educate, and lead its readers through the histories of Mexican rock and roll literature and culture.”—Iván Eusebio Aguirre Darancou, author of Consuming Citizens: Countercultural Bodies in Twentieth-Century Mexico

“With an accessible style, engaging prose, and near encyclopedic knowledge of all things rock on both sides of the Mexico-US border, Brian Price offers informative and, frankly, fun, analyses of rock literature in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Mexico.”—Tamara Mitchell, University of British Columbia

“Demonstrates that rock-oriented narrative is neither marginal nor imitative but an important engine of aesthetic innovation and social critique. By tracing six decades of writing, this book reframes Mexican literary modernity beyond the postrevolutionary nationalist paradigm, showing how music and youth culture generate alternative imaginaries of citizenship and belonging.”—Rafael Acosta Morales, author of Drug Lords, Cowboys, and Desperadoes: Violent Myths of the U.S.-Mexico Frontier