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Nor-tec Rifa! - Electronic Dance Music from Tijuana to the World (Paperback, New) Loot Price: R1,036
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Nor-tec Rifa! - Electronic Dance Music from Tijuana to the World (Paperback, New): Alejandro L. Madrid

Nor-tec Rifa! - Electronic Dance Music from Tijuana to the World (Paperback, New)

Alejandro L. Madrid

Series: Currents in Iberian and Latin American Music

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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. Mostly middle-class artists in their thirties, and with few exceptions all from Tijuana, Nor-tec musicians tend to avoid the mainstream music industry's channels, distributing works instead through the underground, global means of the Internet, enabling a loyal international following to grow rapidly. Perched on the border between Mexico and the United States, Tijuana has media links to both countries, with peoples, currencies, and cultural goods -perhaps especially music- from both sides circulating intensely within the city. Tijuana's older residents and their more mobile, cosmopolitan-minded children thus engage in a constant struggle with identity and nationality, appropriation and authenticity. Nor-tec music in its very composition encapsulates this city's struggle. It resonates with issues felt on the global level, while holding vastly different meanings to the variety of communities that embrace it. 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 ortena, banda, and grupera traditions. The book is also amongst the first to offer detailed accounts of Nor-tec music's composition process.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Series: Currents in Iberian and Latin American Music
Release date: April 2008
First published: March 2008
Authors: Alejandro L. Madrid (Assistant Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies)
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-534262-8
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Non-Western music, traditional & classical
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > 20th century music
Books > Music > Non-Western music, traditional & classical
Books > Music > Western music, periods & styles > 20th century music
LSN: 0-19-534262-3
Barcode: 9780195342628

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