We will look at the songwriters such as Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan (USA), rock music in Chile and Argentina in the period of transition from dictatorship to democracy, political salsa in the 1970s/80s (Ruben Blades, Willie Col??n), Chicana punk (Alice Bags 1980s), Transfronterizo Fandango (US-Mexican border), the black rock coalition and the cultural politics of race (1980s) and ethnicity and pol