Description: This book explores the transnational connections that inform the large diversity of musical traditions from the U.S.-Mexico border (from nortena and cumbia to indigenous musics, Afro-American traditions and pop musics) while keeping an eye on their powerful local significance, in an attempt to redefine notions like "border," "nation," "migration," "diaspora."
Review Quotes: "Readers of this volume will come away with a richer understanding of how and why music and dance are two of the most potent expressive forms in and around the US-Mexico border. Transnational Encounters is required reading in Latin@ studies, popular music and ethnomusicology."--Latino Studies
"Transnational Encounters will richly reward the diligent reader looking for connections and theoretical frames upon which to build future study."--Ethnomusicology"Bridging various approaches to border studies, this fascinating and far-ranging collection assembled by Alejandro Madrid is solidly grounded in the aural culture particulars of the US-Mexico transnational soundscape...Transnational Encounters delivers readers equal parts substantial information and original research in sync with insightful social and cultural analysis."--Hispanic American Historical Review"[T]his volume offers an excellent range of discussions regarding music, dance, and performance in contested spaces in Mexico and the United States. I recommend it for students and scholars of ethnomusicology, cultural studies, and in the broadest sense, American and identity studies."--Latin American Music Review"[T]his volume provides a significant contribution to the discussion of crucial broad themes in contemporary musicology - music and place, performance, or the old but still very relevant music and nationalism."--Popular Music