Music in Mexico Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture

The complex legacy of Mexico's ethnic past and geographic location have shaped the country and its culture. In Music in Mexico, Alejandro L. Madrid uses extensive fieldwork, interviews with performers, eyewitness accounts of performances, and vivid illustrations to guide students through modern-day music practices. Applying three themes-ethnic identity, migration, and media influences-the text explores the music that Mexicans grow up listening to and shows how these traditions are the result of long-standing transnational dialogues. Packaged with a 40-minute audio CD containing musical examples, the text features numerous listening activities that engage students with the music. Music in Mexico is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Global Music Series. Thinking Musically incorporates music from many diverse cultures and establishes the framework for exploring the practice of music around the world. It sets the stage for an array of case-study volumes, each of which focuses on a single area of the world. Each case study uses the contemporary musical situation as a point of departure, covering historical information and traditions as they relate to the present. Visit www.oup.com/us/globalmusic for a list of case studies in the Global Music Series. The website also includes instructional material to accompany each study.

Forward
Preface
CD Track List
1. Introduction
Ethnic Identity and Music in Mexico
Music, Migration, Diaspora and Music in Mexico
Media and Music in Mexico
2. The Transnational Resurgence of Son Jarocho
The Mexican Son Complex
Style and Practice in Son Jarocho
Son Jarocho in Veracruz: A History of Migration and Transculturation
The Rise of Son Jarocho as a Mexican National Icon
The Transnational Resurgence of Son Jarocho
3. Bolero: Cosmopolitanism and the Mexican Romantic Song until the 1960s
The Basic Stylistic Features of a Transnational Genre
The Bolero in Mexico: The Trova Yucateca Tradition
Mexico City and the Production and Popularization of the Mexican Bolero: 1930s-1950s
Trios and Bolero Ranchero: The 1950s and 1960s
4. Balada. Cosmopolitanism and the Mexican Romantic Song in the 1970s
Shifting Taste: From Bolero to Balada in 1960s and 1970s Mexico
Televisa and the Balada for the Middle-Classes
Balada Grupera and Working-Class Sentimentality
Masculine, Feminine, and Queer Sensibilities in the Balada
5. Norteña Music and its History of Hybridization
The Myth of Onda Grupera
Accordion Music from the Mexican Northeast to the World
The Corrido in Norteña Music
The Performance of a Norteña Identity
6. Banda Music. From Village Brass Music to Narcocorridos
The Banda Craze
A History of Banda Music
Banda after NAFTA. The Transnational Re-imagination of Banda Music
Narcocorrido. A Genre Common to the Norteña and Banda Traditions
7. Rock and Canto Nuevo: Alternative Musics in Mexico
Before the Avándaro Festival. The Arrival of Rock 'n' Roll in Mexico
From Nueva Canción to Canto Nuevo
Rock in the 1980s: From Rock Rupestre to Rock en tu Idioma
Glossary
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