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Musica Nortena: Mexican Americans Creating a Nation Between Nations

Música norteña, 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, música norteña has become the music of a "nation between nations." Música Norteña is the first definitive history of this transnational music that has found enormous commercial success in norteamérica.

Cathy Ragland, an ethnomusicologist and former music critic, serves up the fascinating fifty-year story of música norteña, enlivened by interviews with important musicians and her own first-hand observations of live musical performances. Beyond calling our attention to musical influences, ragland shows readers the social and economic forces at work behind the music. By comparing música norteña with other popular musical forms, including conjunto tejano, she helps us understand and appreciate the musical ties that bind the Mexican diaspora.

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Musica Nortena: Mexican Americans Creating a Nation Between Nations

Música norteña, 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, música norteña has become the music of a "nation between nations." Música Norteña is the first definitive history of this transnational music that has found enormous commercial success in norteamérica.

Cathy Ragland, an ethnomusicologist and former music critic, serves up the fascinating fifty-year story of música norteña, enlivened by interviews with important musicians and her own first-hand observations of live musical performances. Beyond calling our attention to musical influences, ragland shows readers the social and economic forces at work behind the music. By comparing música norteña with other popular musical forms, including conjunto tejano, she helps us understand and appreciate the musical ties that bind the Mexican diaspora.

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Musica Nortena: Mexican Americans Creating a Nation Between Nations

Musica Nortena: Mexican Americans Creating a Nation Between Nations

by Catherine Ragland
Musica Nortena: Mexican Americans Creating a Nation Between Nations
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Musica Nortena: Mexican Americans Creating a Nation Between Nations

Musica Nortena: Mexican Americans Creating a Nation Between Nations

by Catherine Ragland

Overview

Música norteña, 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, música norteña has become the music of a "nation between nations." Música Norteña is the first definitive history of this transnational music that has found enormous commercial success in norteamérica.

Cathy Ragland, an ethnomusicologist and former music critic, serves up the fascinating fifty-year story of música norteña, enlivened by interviews with important musicians and her own first-hand observations of live musical performances. Beyond calling our attention to musical influences, ragland shows readers the social and economic forces at work behind the music. By comparing música norteña with other popular musical forms, including conjunto tejano, she helps us understand and appreciate the musical ties that bind the Mexican diaspora.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781592137480
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication date: 03/16/2009
Series: Studies In Latin America & Car
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 268
File size: 6 MB

About the Author

"Mobilizing Science offers a sharp and focused analysis of the complicated relationship between scientists and lay-people in grassroots movements aimed at influencing policies on issues that have a strong technical component. McCormick grounds her arguments in two detailed cases that are extremely different in their overall contexts. Yet she is able to identify similar mechanisms at work, which have useful distinctions that are helpful in thinking about these types of movements more generally."
—William Gamson, Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Media Research and Action Project at Boston College

Table of Contents

Preface 
Acknowledgments 
Introduction 
1. Mexicanidad and Música Norteña in the “Two Mexicos” 
2. Regional Identity, Class, and the Emergence of “Border Music” 
3. Border Culture, Migration, and the Development of Early Música Norteña 
4. Modern Música Norteña and the Undocumented Immigrant 
5. Los Tigres del Norte and the Transnationalization of Música Norteña in the Working-Class Mexican Diaspora 
Conclusion 
Glossary 
References 
Selected Discography 
Interviews 
Index

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