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winner of the 2021 Ellen Koskoff Edited Volume Prize Decentering
the Nation: Music, Mexicanidad, and Globalization considers how
neoliberal capitalism has upset the symbolic economy of "Mexican"
cultural discourse, and how this phenomenon touches on a broader
crisis of representation affecting the nation-state in
globalization. This book argues that, while mexicanidad emerged in
the early twentieth century as a cultural trope about national
origins, culture, and history, it was, nonetheless a trope steeped
in 'otherization' and used by nation-states (Mexico and the United
States) to legitimize narratives of cultural and socioeconomic
development stemming out of nationalist political projects that are
now under strain. Using music as a phenomenological platform of
inquiry, contributors to this book focus on a critique of
mexicanidad in terms of the cultural processes through which people
contest ideas about race, gender, and sexuality; reframe ideas of
memory, history, and belonging; and negotiate the experiences of
dislocation that affect them. The volume urges readers to find
points of resonance in its chapters, and thus, interrogate the
asymmetrical ways in which power traverses their own historical
experience. In light of the crisis in representation that currently
affects the nation-state as a political unit in globalization, such
resonance is critical to make culture an arena of social collusion,
where alliances can restore the fiber of civil society and contest
the pressures that have made disenfranchisement one of the most
alarming features characterizing the complex relationships between
the state and the neoliberal corporate system that seeks to
regulate it. Scholars of history, international relations, cultural
anthropology, Latin American studies, queer and gender studies,
music, and cultural studies will find this book particularly
useful.
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