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Transnational Encounters

Name: Transnational Encounters
Brand: Oxford University Press Inc
SKU: 9780199735921
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Music and Performance at the U.S.-Mexico Border

Autor: Alejandro L. Madrid

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Through the study of a large variety of musical practices from the U.S.-Mexico border, this book see...

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Autor

Alejandro L. Madrid

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2011

Pagini

424

EAN

9780199735921

ISBN

0199735921

Enbook ID

04535261

Editura

Oxford University Press Inc

Greutate

730

Dimensiuni

163 x 236 x 33

Descriere completă

Through the study of a large variety of musical practices from the U.S.-Mexico border, this book seeks to provide a new perspective on the complex character of this geographic area. By focusing not only on nortena, 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 in this book 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 what characterizes it. From a wide variety of disciplinary and multidisciplinary enunciations, the essays in this book 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