ISBN:
9780822372202
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (440 pages)
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32 illustrations
Series Statement:
Refiguring American Music
DDC:
305.86872073
Keywords:
Alan Merriam Book Award winners
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Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists Book Award winner
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SLACA Book Award Winner
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latina anthropologist book award winners
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latina studies book award winners
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
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Huapangos Social aspects
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Mexican Americans Songs and music
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Social aspects
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Mexican Americans Social life and customs
Abstract:
In Sounds of Crossing Alex E. Chávez explores the contemporary politics of Mexican migrant cultural expression manifest in the sounds and poetics of huapango arribeño, a musical genre originating from north-central Mexico. Following the resonance of huapango's improvisational performance within the lives of audiences, musicians, and himself-from New Year's festivities in the highlands of Guanajuato, Mexico, to backyard get-togethers along the back roads of central Texas-Chávez shows how Mexicans living on both sides of the border use expressive culture to construct meaningful communities amid the United States' often vitriolic immigration politics. Through Chávez's writing, we gain an intimate look at the experience of migration and how huapango carries the voices of those in Mexico, those undertaking the dangerous trek across the border, and those living in the United States. Illuminating how huapango arribeño's performance refigures the sociopolitical and economic terms of migration through aesthetic means, Chávez adds fresh and compelling insights into the ways transnational music-making is at the center of everyday Mexican migrant life
Note:
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Sep 2020)
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In English
DOI:
10.1515/9780822372202
URL:
Volltext
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URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822372202
