Sounds of Crossing - Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeno

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Alex E. Chaavez, Alex E. Chavez, Alex E Chávez, Alex E. Chávez, Alex E. Chßvez
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9780822370093
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-7009-3
• No. of pages: 440
• Series: Refiguring American Music; Refiguring American Music
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; Migration, Einwanderung und Auswanderung, Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies, Ethnic Issues, MUSIC / Ethnomusicology