our listening for alternative borderlands imaginaries that are inaudible within the limits of 'la onda'.
The Limits of La Onda
Hardback
Publication Date: 16/10/2012
Musical sound has been central to heteromasculinist productions of nation and homeland, whether Chicano, Tejano, Texan, Mexican, or American. If this assertion holds true, as Deborah R. Vargas suggests, then what are we to make of those singers and musicians whose representations of gender and sexuality are irreconcilable with canonical Chicano/Tejano music or what Vargas refers to as 'la onda'? These are the 'dissonant divas' Vargas discusses, performers who stimulate
our listening for alternative borderlands imaginaries that are inaudible within the limits of 'la onda'.
our listening for alternative borderlands imaginaries that are inaudible within the limits of 'la onda'.
- ISBN:
- 9780816673162
- 9780816673162
- Category:
- Theory of music & musicology
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 16-10-2012
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 288
- Dimensions (mm):
- 216x140x25mm
- Weight:
- 0.41kg
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