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Description of  Decentering the Nation : Music, Mexicanidad, and Globalization

This book considers how global capitalism has upset the symbolic economy of Mexican cultural discourse. It focuses on the cultural processes through which people contest ideas about race, gender, and sexuality reframe ideas of memory, history, and belonging and negotiate the experiences of dislocation that affect them. "This 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 Benjamins 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, Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico If you want to support my blog, then you can buy a premium account through any of my files (i.e. on the download page of my book). In this case, I get a percent of sale and can continue to delight you with new books!