{"product_id":"decentering-the-nation-9781498573191","title":"Decentering the Nation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis fascinating volume explores how music enables the definition of national and community-based identities, while at the same time its unstoppable flow makes it cross borders constantly. Nothing can stop the migration of sounds that express emotions intimately woven into identities produced in new territories. The authors in this volume address such paradox by examining different musical expressions of mexicanidad, a type of mexicanidad traversed by sounds that have migrated – such as cumbia or rumba – and which confronts a decentering of the nation. Thus, this original and provocative book approaches sonic spaces in terms of what I would call aural auras (to echo Walter Benjamin’s idea): spaces that wrap identities in specific social contexts. Mexicanidad has an aural aura that changes, breaks, or disappears, and it is analyzed from very diverse perspectives in this book. -- Roger Bartra, Emeritus Researcher, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis unique collective work explores the dialectic between national self-assertion and its subversion, through a remarkable range of situated musical practices. Its authors are committed both to ethnographic and theoretical engagement, even as they invite readers to familiarize themselves with the rich and varied soundscapes that are reshaping the very idea of “Mexican identity\" today.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Claudio Lomnitz, Columbia University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eby Chela Sandoval\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Post-Mexicanidad apropos of the Postnational\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eby Jesús A. Ramos-Kittrell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.Afrodiasporic Visual and Sonic Assemblages: Racialized Anxieties and the Disruption of Mexicanidad in Cine de Rumberas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eby Laura G. Gutiérrez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2.The Danza de Inditas in the Mexican Huasteca Region: Decolonizig Nationalist Discourse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eby Lizette Alegre González\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3.Chavela’s Frida: Decolonial Performativity of the Queer Llorona\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eby Ana R. Alonso-Minutti\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4.Vaquero World: Queer Mexicanidad, Trans Performance, and the Undoing of Nation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eby Nadine Hubbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5.“Soy gallo de Sinaloa jugado en varios palenques”: Production and Consumption of Narco-music in a Transnational World\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eby César Burgos Dávila and Helena Simonett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6.Yo lo digo sin tristezas (I say it without lament): Transnational Migration, Postnational Voicings, and the Aural Politics of Nation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eby Alex E. Chávez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7.Reclaiming ‘the Border’ in Texas-Mexican Conjunto Heritage and Cultural Memory\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eby Cathy Ragland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8.Sounding Cumbia: Past and Present in a Globalized Mexican Periphery\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eby Jesús A. Ramos-Kittrell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9.Southern California Chicanx Music and Culture: Affective Strategies within a Browning Temporal System of Global Contradictions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eby Peter J. García\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e10.Listening from ‘The Other Side’: Music, Border Studies and The Limits of Identity Politics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eby Alejandro L. Madrid","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040814727511,"sku":"9781498573191","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498573191.jpg?v=1750947932","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/decentering-the-nation-9781498573191","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}