{"product_id":"sounds-of-crossing-9780822370093","title":"Sounds of Crossing","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlex E. Chávez explores the contemporary politics of Mexican migrant cultural expression manifest in huapango arribeño, a musical genre from north-central Mexico that helps Mexicans build communities on both sides of the US border and give voice to the transnational migrant experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Chavez uses the songs of the borderlands to talk about immigration into the US and the culture that has sprung up around the border. He pulls in both history and current situations – and best of all, his own experiences as a Mexican academic and musician – to create a multidimensional, gorgeous book.\" -- Alejandra Oliva * Remezcla *\u003cbr\u003e\"Bold and engaging. . . . Teeming with moments of intimacy, and a genuine attention to humanity. . . . Courageous and timely. . . . \u003ci\u003eSounds of Crossing\u003c\/i\u003e will be of interest not only to scholars across disciplines and musical genres, as it relates aurality and aesthetics to political and social life, but also to non-academic lovers of music. This is a book of humanity, and a book of stories.\" -- Nandini Rupa Banerjee-Datta * Current Musicology *\u003cbr\u003e\"Alex E. Chávez has made an important contribution in the fields of cultural anthropology, ethnomusicology, folklore, history, and immigration studies with his work, \u003ci\u003eSounds of Crossing\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . A must read for those interested in the lives, experiences, and music of undocumented people in the United States.\" -- José R. López Morín * Anthropos *\u003cbr\u003e\"Few scholarly works have attempted to link the study of popular music and literary practices to the experience of international migration and fewer still have done so in as compelling a way as Chávez has done.\" -- David Spener * Bulletin of Latin American Research *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSounds of Crossing\u003c\/i\u003e succeeds in introducing Huapango Arribeno to the world, articulately weaving between the daunting cliffs of anthropological theory and the lush valleys of sung poetry and anecdote, carrying the mellifluous sounds of Espanol and a vihuela on its back, greeting across space and time, singing the songs of the unheard.\" -- Renata Yazzie * Linguistic Anthropology *\u003cbr\u003e\"The rigor and depth of both the ethnographic and musical work in this text, and the joining of the two, is a rare find in contemporary ethnography.\" -- Kristina M. Jacobsen * Anthropological Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: American Border\/Lands  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Aurality and the Long American Century  34\u003cbr\u003e 2. Companions of the Calling  62\u003cbr\u003e 3. Verses and Flows at the Dawn of Neoliberal Mexico  130\u003cbr\u003e 4. Regional Sounds: Mexican Texas and the Semiotics of Citizenship  198\u003cbr\u003e 5. From Potosi to Tennessee: Clandestine Desires and the Poetic Border  232\u003cbr\u003e 6. Huapango sin Fronteras: Mapping What Matters and Other Paths  278\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: They Dreamed of Bridges  316\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: \"Born in the U.S.A.\"  327\u003cbr\u003e Appendix A: Musical Transcriptions  331\u003cbr\u003e Appendix B: Improvised Saludados  349\u003cbr\u003e Notes  361\u003cbr\u003e References  387\u003cbr\u003e Index  411","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406107648343,"sku":"9780822370093","price":94.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822370093.jpg?v=1730494554","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sounds-of-crossing-9780822370093","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}