Transnational Encounters
Music and Performance at the U.S.-Mexico Border
1st Edition
Published on 29. September 2011
425 pages
978-0-19-987611-2 (ISBN)
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Through the study of a large variety of musical practices from the U.S.-Mexico border, Transnational Encounters seeks to provide a new perspective on the complex character of this geographic area. By focusing not only on norteña, 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 musical traditions, pop musics), the authors 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 not homogeneity which characterizes it. From a wide variety of disciplinary and multidisciplinary enunciations, these essays explore the transnational connections that inform these musical cultures while keeping an eye on their powerful 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 cultural criticism 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 problematize some of the widespread misconceptions about U.S.-Mexico border history and culture in the current debate about immigration.
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Alejandro L. Madrid is Associate Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, University of Illinois - Chicago, and author, Nor-Tec Rifa!: Electronic Dance Music from Tijuana to the World (OUP, 2008), and Sounds of the Modern Nation (Temple UP, 2009) and Editor, Postnational Musical Identities: Cultural Production, Distribution and Consumption in a Globalized Scenario (Lexington Books, 2007, with Ignacio Corona).
Content
List of Figures
List of Music Examples
Acknowledgements
Map of the U.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 Identity by Donald Henriques
Chapter 6. "This is Our Música, Guy!: Tejanos and Ethno/Regional Musical Nationalism by José E. Limón
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 Spirituals and the Performance of Blackness among Mascogos by Alejandro L. Madrid
Chapter 10. Transnational Cultural Constructions: Cumbia Music and the Making of Locality in Monterrey by Jesús A. Ramos-Kittrell
Chapter 11. Patriotic Citizenship, the Border Wall, and the "El Veterano" Conjunto Festival by Margaret E. Dorsey and Miguel Díaz-Barriga..
V. Trans-Border Cosmopolitan Audiotopias
Chapter 12. The Tijuana Sound: Brass, Blues, and the Border of the 1960s by Josh Kun
Chapter 13. La avanzada regia: Monterrey's Alternative Music Scene and the Aesthetics of Transnationalism by Ignacio Corona
VI. Contested Identities
Chapter 14. New Mexico and 'Manitos at the Borderlands of Popular Music in Greater Mexico by Brenda M. Romero
Chapter 15. "Todos me llaman El Gringo": Place, Identity, and Erasure within the New Mexico Hispano
Music Scene by Lillian Gorman
VII. Performing Locality and Gender
Chapter 16. From Pistol-Packing Pelado to Border Crossing Mojado: El Piporro and the Making of a "Mexican" Border Space by Cathy Ragland
Chapter 17. Dancing Reggaetón with Cowboy Boots by Ramón H. Rivera Servera
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