Nor-tec rifa! : electronic dance music from Tijuana to the world / Alejandro Madrid.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Madrid, Alejandro L.

Series:

Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music Ser.

Currents in Latin American and Iberian music series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colectivo Nortec.

Electronic dance music--Mexico--Tijuana (Baja California)--History and criticism.

Electronic dance music.

Physical Description:

xvi, 254 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Summary:

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the Nor-tec phenomenon emerged from the border city of Tijuana, and through modern Internet technology quickly conquered a global audience. Marketed as a kind of "ethnic" electronic dance music, Nor-tec samples sounds of traditional music from the north of Mexico, transforming these sounds through computer technology used in European and American techno music and electronica. In Nor-tec Rifa!, Alejandro L. Madrid crafts a fascinating account of this music and the city that fostered its birth. With an impressive hybrid of musicology, ethnomusicology, cultural and performance studies, urbanism, and border studies, Nor-tec Rifa! offers compelling insights into the cultural production of Nor-tec as it stems from norte~na, banda, and grupera traditions.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Figures

List of Music Examples

Introduction: Nor-tec and the Borders

ONE: Origins Revisited: Myth and Discourse in the Nortec Collective

TWO: Tradition, Style, Nostalgia, and Kitsch

THREE: Getting the Word Around

FOUR: "Where's the Donkey Show, Mr. Mariachi?": Reterritorializing TJ

FIVE: Producers, DJs, VJs, Fans, and the Performance of Nor-tec

SIX: Dancing with Desire

SEVEN: Nor-tec and the Postnational Imagination

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0199716897

9780199716890

OCLC:

476243527