Nor-tec Rifa!: Electronic Dance Music from Tijuana to the World (Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music)

Madrid, Alejandro L.

ISBN 10: 0195342623 / ISBN 13: 9780195342628

Published by Oxford University Press, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Nor-tec Rifa!: Electronic Dance Music from Tijuana to the World (Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195342623
• ISBN 13: 9780195342628
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the Nor-tec phenomenon emerged from the border city of Tijuana, and through modern Internet technology 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, transforming these sounds through computer technology used in European and American techno music and electronica. In Nor-tec Rifa!, Alejandro L. Madrid crafts a fascinating account of this music and the city that fostered its birth. 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.

About the Author

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.