Música norteña : Mexican migrants creating a nation between nations / Cathy Ragland

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Contents: Mexicanidad and música norteña in the "two Mexicos" -- Regional identity, class, and the emergence of "border music" -- Border culture, migration, and the development of early música norteña -- Modern música norteña and the undocumented immigrant -- Los Tigres del Norte and the transnationalization of música norteña in the working-class Mexican diaspora
Summary: Música norteña, a musical genre with its roots in the folk ballad traditions of Northern Mexico and the Texas-Mexican border region, has become a hugely popular musical style in the U.S., particularly among Mexican immigrants. Featuring evocative songs about undocumented border-crossers, drug traffickers, and the plight of immigrant workers, música norteña has become the music of a "nation between nations." Música norteña is the first definitive history of this transnational music that has found enormous commercial success in Norteamérica.

2009

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic: Conjunto music--History and criticism; Folk music--History and criticism; Music--Social aspects--History