Introduction: the postnational turn in music scholarship and music marketing / Ignacio Corona and Alejandro L. Madrid -- Nationalist and postnationalist perspectives in American musicology / Arved Ashby -- Productive Orientalisms : imagining noise and silence across the pacific, 1957-1967 / Barry Shank -- The miamization of Latin-American pop music / Daniel Party -- Nostalgia and the negotiation of dislocated identities : Puerto Rican boleros in New York and Nuyorican poetry / Vanessa Knights -- Ideology, flux, and identity in Tijuana's nor-tec music / Ignacio Corona and Alejandro L. Madrid -- Quest for the local : building musical ties between Mexico and the United States / Helena Simonett -- Assimilation, reclamation, and rejection of the nation-state Chicano musicians / Steven Loza -- Rockin' la frontera : Mexican rock, globalization, and national identity / Greg Schelonka -- Before and after samba : modernity, cosmopolitanism, and popular music in Rio de Janerio at the beginning and end of the twentieth century / Cristina Magaldi -- The "Afro-colombianization" of hip-hop and discourses on authenticity / Chris Dennis -- Transnational soundscapes : ambient music and bossatrô̂nica / Denilson Lopes.