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2. Reggae on the border: The possibilities of a frontera soundscape
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Alvarez,Luis, (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Section
- Publication Date:
- 01/01; 2011
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Collected Work: Transnational encounters: Music and performance at the U.S.-Mexico border.Pages: 19-40.(AN: 2011-06824).
- Notes:
- Examines the political and cultural possibilities and limits of the wide-ranging reggae scene that has emerged along both sides of the U.S./Mexico border since the 1990s. It investigates why and how members of seemingly disparate border communities, including Mexicanas/os, Chicanas/os, and Native Americans, find common social and political ground playing Afro-Caribbean inspired music. It also interrogates how people living in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands have responded to the impact of economic and political globalization by using reggae to fashion multiethnic and post-national political formations and social relationships at the grassroots.