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Música Norteña : Mexican Migrants Creating a Nation Between Nations

ISBN: 9781592137473 | 1592137474
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Temple Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 5/28/2009

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
Muacute;sica nortentilde;a, a musical genre with its roots in the folk ballad traditions of Northern Mexico and the Texas-Mexican border region, has become a hugely popular musical style in the U.S., particularly among Mexican immigrants. Featuring evocative songs about undocumented border-crossers, drug traffickers, and the plight of immigrant workers, muacute;sica nortentilde;a has becomethemusic of a "nation between nations."Muacute;sica Nortentilde;ais the first definitive history of this transnational music that has found enormous commerci... MORE
Prefacep. vii
Acknowledgmentsp. xiii
Introductionp. 1
Mexicanidad and Música Norteña in the "Two Mexicos"p. 7
Regional Identity, Class, and the Emergence of "Border Music"p. 27
Border Culture, Migration, and the Development of Early Música Norteñap. 56
Modern Música Norteña and the Undocumented Immigrantp. 100
Los Tigres del Norte and the Transnationa... MOREp. 142
Conclusionp. 201
Glossaryp. 205
Referencesp. 213
Selected Discographyp. 225
Interviewsp. 229
Indexp. 233
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Cathy Ragland is an Assistant Professor in Music and the Arts at SUNY/Empire State College. She is a former music critic for the San Antonio Express-News, Seattle Times and Austin American-Statesman, where, among many things, she wrote about Tex-Mex and Norte±a music. She is also a former folklorist and co-founder of the Mariachi Academy of New York, an after-school program in East Harlem.



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