Nor-tec Rifa!: Electronic Dance Music from Tijuana to the World

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Alejandro L. Madrid (Assistant Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies, Assistant Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago)

Nor-tec Rifa!

Electronic Dance Music from Tijuana to the World

Alejandro L. Madrid (Assistant Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies, Assistant Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago)

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Oxford University Press Inc
31 March 2008

20th century & contemporary classical music; Non-Western music: traditional & "classical"; Electronic music; Electronic musical instruments

Series: Currents in Iberian and Latin American Music

"At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the Nor-tec phenomenon emerged from the border city of Tijuana and through the Internet, 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, and transforms them through computer technology used in European and American techno music and electronica. Tijuana has media links to both Mexico and the United States, with peoples, currencies, and cultural goods--perhaps especially music--from both sides circulating intensely within the city. 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, resonating with issues felt on the global level, while holding vastly different meanings to the variety of communities that embrace it. 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 norteña, banda, and grupera traditions. The book is also among the first to offer detailed accounts of Nor-tec music's composition process."

By: Alejandro L. Madrid (Assistant Professor Latin American and Latino Studies Assistant Professor Latin American and Latino Studies University of Illinois at Chicago)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 503g
ISBN: 9780195326376
ISBN 10: 0195326377
Series: Currents in Iberian and Latin American Music
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 31 March 2008
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

"List of Figures List of Music Examples Acknowledgements Introduction: Nor-tec and the Borders 1: Origins Revisited. Myth and Discourse in the Nortec Collective 2: Tradition, Style, Nostalgia, and the Kitsch 3: Getting the Word Around 4: ""Where is the Donkey Show Mr. Mariachi?"" Reterritorializing TJ 5: Producers, DJs, Fans, and the Performance of Nor-tec 6: Dancing with Desire 7: Nor-tec and the Postnational Imagination Bibliography"

Alejandro L. Madrid is a musicologist and cultural theorist whose research focuses on the intersection of modernity, tradition and globalization in music and expressive culture from Mexico and the U.S.-Mexico border. In 2005 Alejandro received the prestigious Casa de las Américas Musicology Prize. He is Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latino studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Reviews for Nor-tec Rifa!: Electronic Dance Music from Tijuana to the World

<br> 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. --George Lipsitz, author of Footsteps in the Dark<br> The Nortec Collective stands astride the US/Mexico border creating an art of hope and adaptation. This music represents all that is possible along the new frontier, and it has fomented a movement of art and film and literature that is unique in the world. Alejandro Madrid's masterful study of this brilliant hybrid stands as one of the important texts in the history of the new, shining, borderlands. Nortec sings, 'Tijuana makes me happy.' This work makes us happy to be alive. --Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The Devil's Highway and The Hummingbird's Daughter<br> Alejandro Madrid is an amazing thinker. His fresh theoretical insights are synthesized from a broad base of knowledge and disciplines. Th