Chávez / Alex E. Chavez Sounds of Crossing

Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7220-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 440 Seiten

Reihe: Refiguring American Music

Alex E. Chávez explores the contemporary politics of Mexican migrant cultural expression manifest in huapango arribeño, a musical genre from north-central Mexico that helps Mexicans build communities on both sides of the US border and give voice to the transnational migrant experience.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chávez, Alex E.

Alex E. Chavez, Chavez

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikethnologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: American Border/Lands 1
1. Aurality and the Long American Century 34
2. Companions of the Calling 62
3. Verses and Flows at the Dawn of Neoliberal Mexico 130
4. Regional Sounds: Mexican Texas and the Semiotics of Citizenship 198
5. From Potosi to Tennessee: Clandestine Desires and the Poetic Border 232
6. Huapango sin Fronteras: Mapping What Matters and Other Paths 278
Conclusion: They Dreamed of Bridges 316
Epilogue: "Born in the U.S.A." 327
Appendix A: Musical Transcriptions 331
Appendix B: Improvised Saludados 349
Notes 361
References 387
Index 411

Über Autor(innen)

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.