Sounds of Crossing
Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño
1st Edition
Published on 16. November 2017
440 pages
978-0-8223-7220-2 (ISBN)
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Alex E. Chávez explores the contemporary politics of Mexican migrant cultural expression manifest in huapango arribeño, a musical genre from north-central Mexico that helps Mexicans build communities on both sides of the US border and give voice to the transnational migrant experience.
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Alex E. Chávez is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame and produced the album Serrano de Corazón by Guillermo Velázquez y Los Leones de la Sierra de Xichú.
Content
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: American Border/Lands 1
1. Aurality and the Long American Century 34
2. Companions of the Calling 62
3. Verses and Flows at the Dawn of Neoliberal Mexico 130
4. Regional Sounds: Mexican Texas and the Semiotics of Citizenship 198
5. From Potosi to Tennessee: Clandestine Desires and the Poetic Border 232
6. Huapango sin Fronteras: Mapping What Matters and Other Paths 278
Conclusion: They Dreamed of Bridges 316
Epilogue: "Born in the U.S.A." 327
Appendix A: Musical Transcriptions 331
Appendix B: Improvised Saludados 349
Notes 361
References 387
Index 411
Introduction: American Border/Lands 1
1. Aurality and the Long American Century 34
2. Companions of the Calling 62
3. Verses and Flows at the Dawn of Neoliberal Mexico 130
4. Regional Sounds: Mexican Texas and the Semiotics of Citizenship 198
5. From Potosi to Tennessee: Clandestine Desires and the Poetic Border 232
6. Huapango sin Fronteras: Mapping What Matters and Other Paths 278
Conclusion: They Dreamed of Bridges 316
Epilogue: "Born in the U.S.A." 327
Appendix A: Musical Transcriptions 331
Appendix B: Improvised Saludados 349
Notes 361
References 387
Index 411
