Reggae on the Border
Reggae on the Border
The Possibilities of a Frontera Soundscape
This chapter investigates 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 multi-ethnic and post-national political formations and social relationships at the grassroots.
Keywords: reggae, grassroots politics, Mexicanas/os, Chicanas/os, Native Americans
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