Sounds of Crossing: Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño

Alex E. Chávez

Published by Duke University Press 2017

Sounds of Crossing

Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño

Alex E. Chávez

In the series Refiguring American Music

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822372202

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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.

Reviews

"Chavez uses the songs of the borderlands to talk about immigration into the US and the culture that has sprung up around the border. He pulls in both history and current situations – and best of all, his own experiences as a Mexican academic and musician – to create a multidimensional, gorgeous book."

-- Alejandra Oliva Remezcla

"Bold and engaging. . . . Teeming with moments of intimacy, and a genuine attention to humanity. . . . Courageous and timely. . . . Sounds of Crossing will be of interest not only to scholars across disciplines and musical genres, as it relates aurality and aesthetics to political and social life, but also to non-academic lovers of music. This is a book of humanity, and a book of stories."

-- Nandini Rupa Banerjee-Datta Current Musicology

"Alex E. Chávez has made an important contribution in the fields of cultural anthropology, ethnomusicology, folklore, history, and immigration studies with his work, Sounds of Crossing. . . . A must read for those interested in the lives, experiences, and music of undocumented people in the United States."

-- José R. López Morín Anthropos

"Few scholarly works have attempted to link the study of popular music and literary practices to the experience of international migration and fewer still have done so in as compelling a way as Chávez has done."

-- David Spener Bulletin of Latin American Research

"Sounds of Crossing succeeds in introducing Huapango Arribeno to the world, articulately weaving between the daunting cliffs of anthropological theory and the lush valleys of sung poetry and anecdote, carrying the mellifluous sounds of Espanol and a vihuela on its back, greeting across space and time, singing the songs of the unheard."

-- Renata Yazzie Linguistic Anthropology

"The rigor and depth of both the ethnographic and musical work in this text, and the joining of the two, is a rare find in contemporary ethnography."

-- Kristina M. Jacobsen Anthropological Quarterly

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
INTRODUCTION American Border/Lands Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER 1 Aurality and the Long American Century Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
CHAPTER 2 Companions of the Calling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
CHAPTER 3 Verses and Flows at the Dawn of Neoliberal Mexico Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
CHAPTER 4 Regional Sounds Mexican Texas and the Semiotics of Citizenship Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	198
CHAPTER 5 From Potosí to Tennessee Clandestine Desires and the Poetic Border Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	232
CHAPTER 6 Huapango sin Fronteras Mapping What Matters and Other Paths Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	278
CONCLUSION: They Dreamed of Bridges Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	316
EPILOGUE: “Born in the U.S.A.” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327
APPENDIX A Musical Transcriptions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
APPENDIX B Improvised Saludados Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	349
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361
REFERENCES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	387
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	411

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 440
Illustrations
- Other: 32 illustrations

eBook

Published: November 16, 2017
ISBN: 9780822372202