Title: <i>Allá</i> in the Mix: Mexican <i>Sonideros</i> and the Musical Politics of Migrancy
Abstract:This essay focuses on the contemporary migrant musical practices of mobile Mexican DJ sound systems, or sonidos. Operating on both sides of the US-Mexico border, sonidos use the DJ mix as a form of mu...This essay focuses on the contemporary migrant musical practices of mobile Mexican DJ sound systems, or sonidos. Operating on both sides of the US-Mexico border, sonidos use the DJ mix as a form of musical communication and community that both moves between the United States and Mexico and plays a role in shaping cross-border migrant politics and activism through what the essay explores as the “aesthetics of allá.”Read More
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-08-31
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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