"Offers an excellent overview of the history of Argentine popular music from the 1940s- 50s. Traces the emergence and development of bolero in Argentina, compares it with the genre in Mexico and Cuba, and indicates parallels between the history of the bolero and that of the tango. Also includes biographies of prominent Argentine bolero singers, short surveys on Latin American artists who performed in Buenos Aires, and a lengthy discography"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.