Overview

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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Author:   Alejandro L. Madrid (Assistant Professor of Latino and Latin American Studies, Assistant Professor of Latino and Latin American Studies, University of Illinois - Chicago, Chicago)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.612kg
ISBN:  

9780199735938

ISBN 10:   019973593
Pages:   424
Publication Date:   17 November 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"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 Contributors"

Reviews

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.

Author Information

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).

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