Música norteña : Mexican migrants creating a nation between nations / Cathy Ragland.
Author: Ragland, Cathy.
Publisher: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2009.
ISBN: 9781592137466 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1592137466 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781592137473 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1592137474 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Description: xvi, 251 p. : ill., maps, music ; 23 cm.
Series: Studies in Latin American and Caribbean music
Subject: Conjunto music History and criticism.
Folk music Mexican-American Border Region History and criticism.
Music Social aspects Mexican-American Border Region History.
Contents: Mexicanidad and música norteña in the "two Mexicos" -- Regional identity, class, and the emergence of "border music" -- Border culture, migration, and the development of early música norteña -- Modern música norteña and the undocumented immigrant -- Los Tigres del Norte and the transnationalization of música norteña in the working-class Mexican diaspora.