Table of Contents

Forward:
Preface:
CD Track List:
1. Introduction
Ethnic Identity and Music in Mexico
Music, Migration, Diaspora and Music in Mexico
Media and Music in Mexico
2. The Transnational Resurgence of Son Jarocho
The Mexican Son Complex
Style and Practice in Son Jarocho
Son Jarocho in Veracruz: A History of Migration and Transculturation
The Rise of Son Jarocho as a Mexican National Icon
The Transnational Resurgence of Son Jarocho
3. Bolero: Cosmopolitanism and the Mexican Romantic Song until the 1960s
The Basic Stylistic Features of a Transnational Genre
The Bolero in Mexico: The Trova Yucateca Tradition
Mexico City and the Production and Popularization of the Mexican Bolero: 1930s-1950s
Trios and Bolero Ranchero: The 1950s and 1960s
4. Balada. Cosmopolitanism and the Mexican Romantic Song in the 1970s
Shifting Taste: From Bolero to Balada in 1960s and 1970s Mexico
Televisa and the Balada for the Middle-Classes
Balada Grupera and Working-Class Sentimentality
Masculine, Feminine, and Queer Sensibilities in the Balada
5. Norteña Music and its History of Hybridization
The Myth of Onda Grupera
Accordion Music from the Mexican Northeast to the World
The Corrido in Norteña Music
The Performance of a Norteña Identity
6. Banda Music. From Village Brass Music to Narcocorridos
The Banda Craze
A History of Banda Music
Banda after NAFTA. The Transnational Re-imagination of Banda Music
Narcocorrido. A Genre Common to the Norteña and Banda Traditions
7. Rock and Canto Nuevo: Alternative Musics in Mexico
Before the Avándaro Festival. The Arrival of Rock 'n' Roll in Mexico
From Nueva Canción to Canto Nuevo
Rock in the 1980s: From Rock Rupestre to Rock en tu Idioma
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About the Author

Alejandro L. Madrid is Associate Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He served as senior editor of Latina/o and Latin American entries for The Grove Dictionary of American Music (second edition) and since 1992 has conducted research in Mexico, Cuba, Spain, and the U.S. Dr. Madrid is the author of Sounds of the Modern Nation. Music, Culture and Ideas in Post-Revolutionary Mexico (2009) and Nor-Tec Rifa! Electronic
Dance Music from Tijuana to the World (2008), and editor of Transnational Encounters, Music and Performance at the U.S.-Mexico Border (2011) among other award-winning books.