Unbelonging: Inauthentic Sounds in Mexican and Latinx Aesthetics

How Latinx artists engage in sonic subcultures to reject neoliberal definitions of belonging

What is the connection between the British rock star Morrissey and the Latinx culture of transnational “unbelonging”? What is the relevance of “dyke chords” in Chicana feminist punk and lesbian dissolution? In what ways can dissonant sounds challenge systems of dominance?

Unbelonging answers these questions and more through an exploration into Mexican and US-based Latinx artists’, writers’, and creato...