Nor-tec Rifa!
Electronic Dance Music from Tijuana to the World
Series: Currents in Iberian and Latin American Music;
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Product details:
- Edition number and title Nor-tec musicians tend to avoid the mainstream music industry's channels
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 6 March 2008
- ISBN 9780195326376
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 163x236x22 mm
- Weight 499 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 15 halftones, 14 music examples 0
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Short description:
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. 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.
MoreLong description:
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.
In this brilliant study of a local culture's transnational dynamics and dimensions, Alejandro Madrid reveals how radical changes in contemporary commerce and culture are imbuing old identities, borders, and boundaries with new meanings.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
List of Music Examples
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Nor-tec and the Borders
Origins Revisited. Myth and Discourse in the Nortec Collective
Tradition, Style, Nostalgia, and the Kitsch
Getting the Word Around
"Where is the Donkey Show Mr. Mariachi?" Reterritorializing TJ
Producers, DJs, Fans, and the Performance of Nor-tec
Dancing with Desire
Nor-tec and the Postnational Imagination
Bibliography
