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Author: Alex E. Chávez
Publisher: Duke University Press
Imprint: Duke University Press
Weight: 0.603kg
ISBN: 9780822370093
ISBN 10: 0822370093
Pages: 440
Publication Date: 01 December 2017
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
In this masterful ethnography, Alex E. Chavez focuses on huapango arribeno, its performance, its circulation, and its consumption, to explore the everyday politics of Mexican migrant life in the United States. Evoking the border crossing of decimas and zapateados huapangueros, Chavez's beautiful writing continuously challenges the boundaries between storytelling, theory, and real life, to offer a dispassionate glimpse into the emotional paradoxes that inform the making of Mexican-American spaces and subjectivities in twenty-first-century America. -- Alejandro L. Madrid, author of * Nor-tec Rifa! Electronic Dance Music from Tijuana to the World * I am almost left at a loss for words, except: wow. Alex E. Chavez's writing is vivid, rich, and sensuous, and the command of voicing as he switches between perspectives and crosses theoretical, ethnographical, and analytical divides is effortless and constantly clarifying. One hears the sound of a major ethnographic voice emerging here. Sounds of Crossing is one of the best musical ethnographies I've read in years, and it will surely rank with the very best books in its category of this or any generation. -- Aaron A. Fox, author of * Real Country: Music and Language in Working-Class Culture *
I am almost left at a loss for words, except: wow. Alex E. Chavez's writing is vivid, rich, and sensuous, and the command of voicing as he switches between perspectives and crosses theoretical, ethnographical, and analytical divides is effortless and constantly clarifying. One hears the sound of a major ethnographic voice emerging here. Sounds of Crossing is one of the best musical ethnographies I've read in years and it will surely rank with the very best books in its category of this or any generation. -- Aaron A. Fox, author of Real Country: Music and Language in Working-Class Culture In this masterful ethnography, Alex E. Chavez focuses on huapango arribeno, its performance, its circulation, and its consumption, to explore the everyday politics of Mexican migrant life in the United States. Evoking the border crossing of decimas and zapateados huapangueros, Chavez's beautiful writing continuously challenges the boundaries between storytelling, theory, and real life, to offer a dispassionate glimpse into the emotional paradoxes that inform the making of Mexican-American spaces and subjectivities in twenty-first-century America. -- Alejandro L. Madrid, author of Nor-Tec Rifa! Electronic Dance Music from Tijuana to the World
Author Information
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.
