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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>The first history of the music that binds together Mexican immigrant communities<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781592137466&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="1518_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><!--none//--><h1>Música Norteña</h1>
<H2>Mexican Migrants Creating a Nation between Nations</H2>
<h3>Cathy Ragland</h3>
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<BR> 268 pp
6x9
2 map(s) 22 figures 13 halftones
</P><BLOCKQUOTE><I><p><i>"Ragland's ethnomusicological approach to música norteña’s evolution
and its contemporary relevance, brings the topic to life. The music is
clearly a prism to examining a broad swath of social, political, economic,
cultural, and communications issues. Her musical analysis is fresh, rare,
and valuable."</i><BR>—<b>Daniel Sheehy</b>, Director and Curator,
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings</p></I></BLOCKQUOTE>
<p>Música norteña, a musical genre with its roots in the folk ballad traditions
of northern Mexico and the Texas-Mexican border region, has
become a hugely popular musical style in the U.S., particularly among
Mexican immigrants. Featuring evocative songs about undocumented
border-crossers, drug traffickers, and the plight of immigrant workers,
música norteña has become the music of a "nation between nations."
<i>Música Norteña</i> is the first definitive history of this transnational music
that has found enormous commercial success in norteamérica.</p><p>
Cathy Ragland, an ethnomusicologist and former music critic,
serves up the fascinating fifty-year story of música norteña, enlivened
by interviews with important musicians and her own first-hand
observations of live musical performances. Beyond calling our
attention to musical influences, Ragland shows readers the social
and economic forces at work behind the music. By comparing música
norteña with other popular musical forms, including conjunto tejano,
she helps us understand and appreciate the musical ties that bind the
Mexican diaspora.</p>
<BR> <h2>Excerpt</h2><P>Excerpt available at <a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress">www.temple.edu/tempress</a></p>
<BR> <h2>Reviews</h2>
<p><i>"</i>Música Norteña<i> is the first book to take on such a wide-ranging consideration of this immensely important and widespread Mexican-based musical culture. Ragland makes skilled use of the narrative content of voices ranging from the corridos of Washington’s Yakima Valley to the </i>cronistas<i> on the Mexican-U.S. border. The excellent musical analyses, the careful lyrical scrutiny, and the author’s own decades-long experience make this a first-rate and unique contribution, the most authoritative and broad-based examination of music of Mexican and Mexican-American communities to date."</i><br><b>—T. M. Scruggs</b>, Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Iowa
<p><i>"Ragland has written an impressive examination of the many "borderland" musics popular among Mexicans and Mexican Americans in the Tex-Mex region of the Mexico-US border. Thanks to her background as a journalist, Ragland writes in a readable style. She packs the book with thorough research, in-depth musical and lyrical analysis, and insightful theoretical discussions of social and cultural issues related to such topics as ethnic identity and transnationalization.... [A] valuable contribution to the growing body of literature on Latin American music. Summing Up: Highly recommended."</i> <br>—<b><i>Choice</i></b>
<BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P>
<p>Preface
<br>Acknowledgments
<br>Introduction
<br>1. Mexicanidad and Música Norteña in the “Two Mexicos”
<br>2. Regional Identity, Class, and the Emergence of “Border Music”
<br>3. Border Culture, Migration, and the Development of Early Música Norteña
<br>4. Modern Música Norteña and the Undocumented Immigrant
<br>5. Los Tigres del Norte and the Transnationalization of Música Norteña in the Working-Class Mexican Diaspora
<br>Conclusion
<br>Glossary
<br>References
<br>Selected Discography
<br>Interviews
<br>Index
</P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2>
<table><tr><td valign="top"><img src="/tempress/authors/1957_au1.gif" height="90" width="75"></td><td width="100%" valign="middle"><p><b>Cathy Ragland</b> is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology in the Department of Music and Dance at the University of Texas, Pan American. She is a former music critic for the <i>San Antonio Express-News</i>, <i>Seattle Times</i> and <i>Austin American-Statesman</i>, where she wrote about Texas-Mexican music and música norteña, among other popular genres. She also cofounded the Mariachi Academy of New York, a community-based music program for youth in East Harlem.</P></td></tr></table>
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<BR><A HREF="/tempress/music.html" TARGET="_top">Music and Dance</a>
<BR><A HREF="/tempress/american.html" TARGET="_top">American Studies</a>
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<BR><h2 class="inpageheading">In the series</H2>
<P><I><a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress/latin_music.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Click for other books in this series!'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;" target="_top">Studies in Latin American and Caribbean Music</a></i>, edited by Peter Manuel.
</p><p><i>Studies in Latin American and Caribbean Music</i>, edited by Peter Manuel, aims to present interdisciplinary studies in the traditional and contemporary musics of Latin America and the Caribbean.</p>
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