Transnational encounters
Subtitle: music and performance at the U.S.-Mexico border
By: edited by Alejandro L. Madrid
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9780199735921; 9780199735938
Subjects: Folk music; Popular music; Music; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Border meanings.; title: Reggae on the border: the possibilities of a Frontera soundscape -- Luis Alvarez; title: Breaking borders/quebrando fronteras: dancing in the borderscape -- Sydney Hutchinson; title: Narcocorridos: narratives of a cultural persona and power on the border -- Mark C. Edberg -- Nationalisms.; title: Mariachi reimaginings: encounters with technology, aesthetics, and identity -- Donald Henriques; title: "This is our música, guy!": Tejanos and ethno/regional musical nationalism -- José E. Limón -- Indigeneity and Modernity.; title: Re-localized rap and its representation of the hombre digno -- Helena Simonett; title: Waila as transnational practice -- Joan Titus -- Cultural citizenship and rights.; title: Transnational identity, the signing of spirituals, and the performance of blackness among Moscogos -- Alejandro L. Madrid; title: Transnational cultural constructions: Cumbia music and the making of locality in Monterrey -- Jesus A. Ramos-Kittrell; title: Patriotic citizenship, the border wall, and the "El Veterano" Conjunto Festival -- Margaret E. Dorsey and Miguel Díaz-Barriga -- Trans-border cosmopolitan audiotapes.; title: The Tijuana sound: brass, blues and the border of the 1960s -- Josh Kun; title: La avanzada regia: Monterrey's alternative music scene and the aesthetics of transnationalism -- Ignacio Corona -- Contested identities.; title: New Mexico and 'Manitos at the borderlands of popular music in Greater Mexico -- Brenda M. Romero; title: "Todos me llaman El Gringo": place, identity, and erasure within the New Mexico Hispano music scene -- Lillian Gorman -- Performing locality and gender.; title: From pistol-packing pelado to border crossing mojado: El Piporro and the making of a "Mexican" border space -- Cathy Ragland; title: Dancing Reggaetón with cowboy boots-- Ramón H. Rivera-Servera.