Transnational encounters: music and performance at the u.s.-mexico border

This book explores the transnational connections that inform the large diversity of musical traditions from the U.S.-Mexico border while keeping an eye on their powerful local significance, in an attempt to redefine notions like "border," "nation," "migration," "diaspora." Through the study of a large variety of musical practices from the U.S.-Mexico border, this book seeks to providea new perspective on the complex character of this geographic area. By focusing not only on nortena, banda or conjunto musics (the most stereotypical musical traditions among Hispanics in the area) but also engaging a number of musical practices that have often been neglected in the study of this border's history and culture (indigenous musics, African American musicaltraditions, pop musics), the authors in this book provide a glance into the diversity of ethnic groups that have encountered each other throughout the area's history. Against common misconceptions about the U.S.-Mexico border as a predominant Mexican area, this book argues that it is diversity and nothomogeneity what characterizes it. From a wide variety of disciplinary and multidisciplinary enunciations, the essays in this book explore the transnational connections that inform these musical cultures while keeping an eye on theirpowerful local significance, in an attempt to redefine notions like <"border,>" <"nation,>" <"migration,>" <"diaspora,>" etc. Looking at music and its performative power through the looking glass of culturalcriticism allows this book to contribute to larger intellectual concerns and help redefine the field of U.S.-Mexico border studies beyond the North/South and American/Mexican dichotomies. Furthermore, the essays in this book, from a wide variety of disciplinary and multidisciplinary enunciations, problematize some of the widespread misconceptions about U.S.-Mexicoborder history and culture in the current debate about immigration. Forthcoming.9780252034091, Olga Najera-Ramirez, Norma E. Cantu, and Brenda M. Romero/Dancing across Borders. Danzas y Bailes Mexicanos, $80, University of Illinois Press, 2009. INDICE: List of Figures List of Music Examples Acknowledgements Map of theU.S.-Mexico Border Chapter 1. Transnational Musical Encounters at the U.S.-Mexico Border: An Introduction by Alejandro L. Madrid I. Border Meanings Chapter 2. Reggae on the Border: The Possibilities of a Frontera Soundscape by Luis Alvarez Chapter 3. Breaking Borders / Quebrando fronteras: Dancing in the Borderscape by Sydney Hutchinson Chapter 4. Narcocorridos: Narratives of a Cultural Persona and Power on the Border by Mark C. Edberg II. Nationalisms Chapter 5. Mariachi Reimaginings: Encounters with Technology, Aesthetics, and Identityby Donald Henriques Chapter 6. "This is Our Msica, Guy!: Tejanos and Ethno/Regional Musical Nationalism by Jos E. Limn III. Indigeneity and Modernity Chapter 7. Re-localized Rap and its Representation of the Hombre digno by Helena Simonett Chapter 8. Waila as Transnational Practice by Joan Titus IV. Cultural Citizenship and Rights Chapter 9. Transnational Identity, the Singing of and the

• ISBN: 978-0-19-973592-1
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 448
• Fecha Publicación: 17/11/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés