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Sounds of Crossing - Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeno (Paperback)
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Sounds of Crossing - Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeno (Paperback)
Series: Refiguring American Music
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In Sounds of Crossing Alex E. Chavez explores the contemporary
politics of Mexican migrant cultural expression manifest in the
sounds and poetics of huapango arribeno, a musical genre
originating from north-central Mexico. Following the resonance of
huapango's improvisational performance within the lives of
audiences, musicians, and himself-from New Year's festivities in
the highlands of Guanajuato, Mexico, to backyard get-togethers
along the back roads of central Texas-Chavez shows how Mexicans
living on both sides of the border use expressive culture to
construct meaningful communities amid the United States' often
vitriolic immigration politics. Through Chavez's writing, we gain
an intimate look at the experience of migration and how huapango
carries the voices of those in Mexico, those undertaking the
dangerous trek across the border, and those living in the United
States. Illuminating how huapango arribeno's performance refigures
the sociopolitical and economic terms of migration through
aesthetic means, Chavez adds fresh and compelling insights into the
ways transnational music-making is at the center of everyday
Mexican migrant life.
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