Border Music

Border Music
Title Border Music PDF eBook
Author Robert James Waller
Publisher Grand Central Pub
Pages 290
Release 1996-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780446602730

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Offers a portrait of the ups and downs in one couple's relationship and the struggle of one elderly man to be free

Transnational Encounters

Transnational Encounters
Title Transnational Encounters PDF eBook
Author Alejandro L. Madrid
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 425
Release 2011-09-29
Genre Music
ISBN 0199876118

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Through the study of a large variety of musical practices from the U.S.-Mexico border, Transnational Encounters seeks to provide a new perspective on the complex character of this geographic area. By focusing not only on norteña, banda or conjunto musics (the most stereotypical musical traditions among Hispanics in the area) but also engaging a number of musical practices that have often been neglected in the study of this border's history and culture (indigenous musics, African American musical traditions, pop musics), the authors provide a glance into the diversity of ethnic groups that have encountered each other throughout the area's history. Against common misconceptions about the U.S.-Mexico border as a predominant Mexican area, this book argues that it is diversity and not homogeneity which characterizes it. From a wide variety of disciplinary and multidisciplinary enunciations, these essays explore the transnational connections that inform these musical cultures while keeping an eye on their powerful local significance, in an attempt to redefine notions like "border," "nation," "migration," "diaspora," etc. Looking at music and its performative power through the looking glass of cultural criticism allows this book to contribute to larger intellectual concerns and help redefine the field of U.S.-Mexico border studies beyond the North/South and American/Mexican dichotomies. Furthermore, the essays in this book problematize some of the widespread misconceptions about U.S.-Mexico border history and culture in the current debate about immigration.

Music in the Head

Music in the Head
Title Music in the Head PDF eBook
Author Leo Rangell
Publisher Routledge
Pages 114
Release 2018-04-24
Genre Psychology
ISBN 0429916418

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This book turns out to have a scientific relevance and value that will similarly interest many, not only those in the specialized field of neuroscience but very individual who has a brain and a mind and wonders about them.

Music Through the Ages

Music Through the Ages
Title Music Through the Ages PDF eBook
Author Alfred Publishing Staff
Publisher Warner Bros. Publications
Pages
Release 2001-02
Genre Music
ISBN 9780757902284

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Wherever music is taught, this decorative timeline should be on the wall! This beautiful full-color banner is over 16 feet long! A handy teacher's reference booklet is included so the teacher can read composer information at a glance. There are five sections that may be displayed together or separately: 1) Late Renaissance / Baroque 2) Classical 3) Romantic 4) Early to Mid-Twentieth Century 5) Mid- to Late Twentieth Century. * Highlights music history from the Renaissance to present day * Includes classical, rock, pop, and jazz greats * Shows dates of famous composers and musicians * Describes briefly each person's importance in music history * Includes portraits or photographs of most musicians * Defines many musical terms to help beginning students * Decorates the classroom while educating at the same time * Provides a great reference to enhance other studies * Includes a handy teacher reference about the musicians.

Alambrista and the U.S.-Mexico Border

Alambrista and the U.S.-Mexico Border
Title Alambrista and the U.S.-Mexico Border PDF eBook
Author Nicholas John Cull
Publisher UNM Press
Pages 236
Release 2004
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 9780826333766

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The critically acclaimed 110-minute film Alambrista (1977) depicts the harsh realities of Mexican life on both sides of the border. For this release, a group of scholars has packaged a new director's cut of the film with a book of essays devoted to immigration and the U.S.-Mexican borderlands and an enhanced CD of the sound track.

Tejano Proud

Tejano Proud
Title Tejano Proud PDF eBook
Author Guadalupe San Miguel
Publisher Texas A&M University Press
Pages 218
Release 2002
Genre History
ISBN 9781585441884

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"Readers interested not only in music, but also in ethnic studies and popular culture, will appreciate the broad spectrum covered in Tejano Proud: Tex-Mex Music in the Twentieth Century."--BOOK JACKET.

Border Matters

Border Matters
Title Border Matters PDF eBook
Author José David Saldívar
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 268
Release 2023-04-28
Genre History
ISBN 0520918363

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Border Matters locates the study of Chicano culture in a broad social context. José Saldívar examines issues of representation and expression in a diverse, exciting assortment of texts—corridos, novels, poems, short stories, punk and hip-hop music, ethnography, paintings, performance, art, and essays. Saldívar provides a sophisticated model for a new kind of U.S. cultural studies, one that challenges the homogeneity of U.S. nationalism and popular culture by foregrounding the contemporary experiences and historical circumstances facing Chicanos and Chicanas. This intellectually adventurous, politically engaged study applies borderlands and diaspora theory to Chicano cultural practices in a way that permanently changes our understanding of both the Chicano experience and the meaning of cultural theory. Defying national (and nationalistic) paradigms of culture, Saldívar argues that the culture of the borderlands is trans-national, constituting a social space in which new relations, hybrid cultures, and multi-voiced aesthetics are negotiated. Saldívar's critical readings treat culture as a social force and reveal the presence of social contexts within cultural texts. Border Matters maps out a new terrain for the study of culture, reshaping the way we understand migration, national identity, and intellectual inquiry itself.