Sounds of crossing : music, migration, and the aural poetics of Huapango Arribeño / Alex E. Chávez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chávez, Alex E., 1982- author.

Series:

Refiguring American music.

Refiguring american music

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Huapangos--Social aspects--United States.

Huapangos.

Mexican Americans--Songs and music--Social aspects--United States.

Mexican Americans.

Mexican Americans--United States--Social life and customs.

Mexico--Emigration and immigration--Songs and music.

Mexico.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Songs and music.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (426 pages).

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction: American border/lands

Aurality and the long American century

Companions of the calling: Huapango Arribeo on the move

Verses and flows: at the dawn of neoliberal Mexico

Mexican Texas: regional sounds and the semiotics of citizenship

From Potosí to Tennessee: clandestine desires and the poetic border

Huapango sin fronteras: mapping what matters and other paths

Conclusion: they dreamed of bridges

Epilogue: "Born in the U.S.A."

Appendix a: Musical transcriptions

Appendix b: Improvised saludados.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Online version: Chávez, Alex E., 1982- author. Sounds of crossing

ISBN:

9780822372202

0822372207

OCLC:

1139361084