Nor-tec Rifa!

Electronic Dance Music from Tijuana to the World

Alejandro L. Madrid (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2008
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-534262-8 (ISBN)

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At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the Nor-tec phenomenon emerged from the border city of Tijuana, and through modern Internet technology quickly conquered a global audience. Marketed as a kind of "ethnic" electronic dance music, Nor-tec samples sounds of traditional music from the north of Mexico, transforming these sounds through computer technology used in European and American techno music and electronica. Mostly middle-class artists in their thirties, and with few exceptions all from Tijuana, Nor-tec musicians tend to avoid the mainstream music industry's channels, distributing works instead through the underground, global means of the Internet, enabling a loyal international following to grow rapidly.

Perched on the border between Mexico and the United States, Tijuana has media links to both countries, with peoples, currencies, and cultural goods -perhaps especially music- from both sides circulating intensely within the city. Tijuana's older residents and their more mobile, cosmopolitan-minded children thus engage in a constant struggle with identity and nationality, appropriation and authenticity. Nor-tec music in its very composition encapsulates this city's struggle. It resonates with issues felt on the global level, while holding vastly different meanings to the variety of communities that embrace it.

In Nor-tec Rifa!, Alejandro L. Madrid crafts a fascinating account of this music and the city that fostered its birth. With an impressive hybrid of musicology, ethnomusicology, cultural and performance studies, urbanism, and border studies, Nor-tec Rifa! offers compelling insights into the cultural production of Nor-tec as it stems from orteña, banda, and grupera traditions. The book is also amongst the first to offer detailed accounts of Nor-tec music's composition process.

Alejandro L. Madrid is a musicologist and cultural theorist whose research focuses on the intersection of modernity, tradition and globalization in music and expressive culture from Mexico and the U.S.-Mexico border. In 2005 Alejandro received the prestigious Casa de las Américas Musicology Prize. He is Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latino studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

List of Figures ; List of Music Examples ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction: Nor-tec and the Borders ; 1. Origins Revisited. Myth and Discourse in the Nortec Collective ; 2. Tradition, Style, Nostalgia, and the Kitsch ; 3. Getting the Word Around ; 4. "Where is the Donkey Show Mr. Mariachi?" Reterritorializing TJ ; 5. Producers, DJs, Fans, and the Performance of Nor-tec ; 6. Dancing with Desire ; 7. Nor-tec and the Postnational Imagination ; Bibliography

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.4.2008
Reihe/Serie	Currents in Iberian and Latin American Music
Zusatzinfo	17 halftones, 16 line illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	386 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
ISBN-10	0-19-534262-3 / 0195342623
ISBN-13	978-0-19-534262-8 / 9780195342628
Zustand	Neuware