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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: 23.60cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 16.00cm
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9780199735921

ISBN 10:   0199735921
Pages:   424
Publication Date:   17 November 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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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.

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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).

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