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Between Norteño and Tejano Conjunto : Music, Tradition, and Culture at the U.S.-Mexico Border.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- D iaz-Santana Garza, Luis.
- Series:
- Music, culture, and identity in Latin America.
- Music, Culture, and Identity in Latin America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conjunto music.
- Tejano music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (173 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Lexington Books, 2021.
- Summary:
- Between Norteño and Tejano Conjunto analyzes the origin, evolution, and dissemination of Norteño and Tejano Conjunto, as part of a regional-transnational identity in the US-Mexico border.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Culture, Popular Culture, and Popular Music
- Chapter 1: Border Territory: Nuevo León and Texas from Colonial Times to the Nineteenth Century
- Pre-Columbian Times and the First European Settlers
- Transformation and Adaptation to the Environment
- Between Mysticism and Weapons
- A Sensitive Issue: Native Americans
- From Provinces to Independent States
- The Short-Lived Republics of the North
- The Border: From Celluloid to the National Imaginary
- Economic and Industrial Development in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- Chapter 2: Precursors to Conjunto: Culture, Migration, and Border Identity
- Mexican Acoustic Traditions
- The Border: Regional Identity vs. National Identity
- Wars and Trade as a Pretext for Migrant Music
- Military and Rural Bands, the Típica Orchestras, and Other Groups
- The Montañeses del Álamo: Heralds of Norteño Conjunto
- We Sing in Spanish (and in English!): Language as a Generator of Identity
- Chapter 3: The First Epoch of Conjunto: Instruments, Musical Forms, and Media
- European Music in America
- Accordion and Bajo Sexto: Symbols and Cultural Unifiers
- Pioneers of Conjunto
- The Recording Industry or the Commodification of Traditions and Art
- Early Radio, the Phonograph's Competitor
- The Spaces of Dissemination for Conjunto: From Cantinas to Ballrooms
- Chapter 4: Conjunto: From Subaltern Mexican Culture to American Cultural Treasure
- Innovations of the Post-War Period: Instruments, Crossover, and Bailes
- Women in Conjunto
- The Chicano Movement and Regional Musical Pride
- Representation of Norteño and Tejano in the Collective Imaginary
- Chapter 5: Transformation and Recent Trends in Conjunto
- Conjunto in Cinema.
- Influence of the American Mainstream in Tejano Conjunto
- Cumbia! A Pan-American musical genre
- Onda grupera, or the power of musical marketing
- From Christian Musicians in the US to the Rise of the Narcocorrido in Mexico
- Conclusions
- Glossary of Musical Terms
- A Selection of Recorded Music
- A Selection of Norteño/Tejano Performers
- Interviews
- Newspapers
- Archives
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
- Previous Publications.
- ISBN:
- 1-66698-530-9
- 1-7936-3899-3
- OCLC:
- 1246676477
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