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

Name: Nor-Tec Rifa! Electronic Dance Music from Tijuana to the World
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ISBN: 9780195342628

ISBN-10: 0195342623

ISBN-13: 9780195342628

Edition: 2008

Authors: Alejandro L. Madrid

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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. Mostly middle-class artists in their thirties, and with few exceptions all from Tijuana, Nor-tec musicians tend to avoid the mainstream music industry's channels, distributing works instead through the underground, global means of the Internet, enabling a loyal international…

Book details

List price: $41.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/21/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.14" long x 0.57" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



List of Figures List of Music Examples


Acknowledgements


Introduction: Nor-tec and the Borders



Origins Revisited. Myth and Discourse in the Nortec Collective



Tradition, Style, Nostalgia, and the Kitsch



Getting the Word Around



""Where is the Donkey Show?"" Reterritorializing TJ




Producers, DJs, Fans, and the Performance of Nor-tec



Dancing with Desire



Nor-tec and the Postnational Imagination


Bibliography