Alex E. Chavez

Sounds of Crossing

Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño

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Produktbeschreibung

Alex E. Chávez explores the contemporary politics of Mexican migrant cultural expression manifest in huapango arribeà o, 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.

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Produktdetails

• Refiguring American Music
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 650g
• ISBN-13: 9780822370185
• ISBN-10: 0822370182
• Artikelnr.: 47704679

Autorenporträt

Alex E. Chávez

Inhaltsangabe

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