Postnational Musical Identities Cultural Production, Distribution, and Consumption in a Globalized Scenario

by Corona, Ignacio; Madrid, Alejandro L.; Ashby, Arved; Dennis, Chris; Knights, Vanessa; Lopes, Denilson; Loza, Steven; Magaldi, Cristina; Party, Daniel; Schelonka, Greg; Shank, Barry; Simonett, Helena

• ISBN13: 9780739118221
• ISBN10: 0739118226
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-27
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Postnational Musical Identities gathers interdisciplinary essays that explore how music audiences and markets are imagined in a globalized scenario, how music reflects upon new understandings of citizenship beyond the nation-state, and how music works as a site of resistance against globalization. "Hybridity," "postnationalism," "transnationalism," "globalization," "diaspora," and similar buzzwords have not only informed scholarly discourse and analysis of music, but also shaped the way musical productions have been marketed worldwide in recent times. While the construction of identities occupies a central position in this context, there are discrepancies between the conceptualization of music as an extremely fluid phenomenon and the traditionally monovalent notion of identity to which it has historically been incorporated. As such, music has always been linked to the construction of regional and national identities. The essays in this collection seek to explore the role of music, networks of music distribution, music markets, music consumption, music production, and music scholarship in the articulation of postnational sites of identification. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Ignacio Corona is associate professor in the departments of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Studies. Ohio State University. Alejandro L. Madrid is assistant professor in the Latin American and Latino Studies Program. University of Illinois at Chicago.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Postnational Perspectives in Music Scholarship
Introduction: The Postnational Turn in Music Scholarship and Music Marketing	p. 3
Nationalist and Postnationalist Perspectives in American Musicology	p. 23
Productive Orientalisms: Imagining Noise and Silence Across the Pacific, 1957-1967	p. 45
A Transnational Caribbean
The Miamization of Latin-American Pop Music	p. 65
Nostalgia and the Negotiation of Dislocated Identities: Puerto Rican Boleros in New York and Nuyorican Poetry	p. 81
Across the U.S.-Mexico Border
Ideology, Flux, and Identity in Tijuana's Nor-tec Music	p. 99
Quest for the Local: Building Musical Ties between Mexico and the United States	p. 119
Assimilation, Reclamation, and Rejection of the Nation-State Chicano Musicians	p. 137
RockIn' la Frontera: Mexican Rock, Globalization, and National Identity	p. 151
South-American Connections
Before and After Samba: Modernity, Cosmopolitanism, and Popular Music in Rio de Janeiro at the Beginning and End of the Twentieth Century	p. 173
The "Afro-Colombianization" of Hip-Hop and Discourses on Authenticity	p. 185
Transnational Soundscapes: Ambient Music and Bossatrônica	p. 209
Selected Discography	p. 219
Selected Bibliography	p. 221
Index	p. 229
Notes on Contributors	p. 237
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