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