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 cu
| Title | : | Transnational Encounters: Music and Performance at the U.S.-Mexico Border |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.62 (813 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 019973593X |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 424Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-4-4 |
| Language | : | English |
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. 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. 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. 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. Furthermore, the essays in this
"Readers of this volume will come away with a richer understanding of how and why music and dance are two of the most potent expressive forms in and around the US-Mexico border. Transnational Encounters is required reading in Latin@ studies, popular music and ethnomusicology."--Latino Studies"Transnational Encounters will richly reward the diligent reader looking for connections and theoretical frames upon which to build future study."--Ethnomusicology"Bridging various approaches to border studies, this fascinating and far-ranging collection assembled by Alejandro Madrid is solidly grounded in the aural culture particulars of the US-Mexico transnational soundscapeTransnationAlejandro 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).Let's toss together a few pages of worthless 'information', give it a catchy title, and make some lunch money. This is a definite must have for people who want to play campaigns of high technology set in the future. He teaches readers about the family of life, a subject typically neglected in schools.Evergreen trees have been around for 170 million years, and trees with leaves are 100 million years old. Who knows what the source of that powder is. solid read.I enjoyed most of these stories for what they are intended. The writing was so disjointed that it not only detracts from the story, it was distracting in general. So, every year, tons of precious biomass are shipped away, to planet Consume. The book calls attention to a number of additional on-line source of information that are critical for understanding when a particular sampling and analysis program is required.. RWK Clark has done it again with this, the third installment in the DeSai vampire series!. Also worrying is the assertion that Mimi had an affair with a boarder. I Know! My dad was stationed in Germany from 1961 to 1967, and I happened to go with friends to Hamburg in the fall of 1961 and saw the Silver Beetles at the Kaiserkeller and the Top Ten Club MANY. Write down all that you saw and did yesterday in the Black Hills. You'll even get a couple pages of useful visualizations s
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