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Compañeros del destino: transborder social lives and huapango arribeño at the interstices of postmodernity

Destined companions of the calling (compañeros del destino), huapango arribeño music practitioners often refer to each other as – a label that signifies the expressive bonding forged through the axis of encounter/engagement central to huapango arribeño’s performance. As of late, huapango arribeño, which originates in Mexico, has made its way across the border where it is performed among communities of listeners and practitioners in the U.S. This dissertation unearths the cultural dimensions of the experiences of migration particular to the immigrant communities in question with focused attention on the performative (musical/discursive) contouring of the transborder imaginary – the prism through which they live and understand their lives, make decisions, work, perform, and imagine. Attention is given to the physical and metaphysical construction of the border between the U.S. and Mexico, to its militarization and officialized discourses of the nation and citizenship that legitimate draconian policy initiatives. Huapango arribeño – as a site of conviviality and sociality –, it is argued, actively disrupts this dislocational alchemy of the borderlands, as communities themselves cultivate the linkages that shape the patterning of their multidirectional existence across borders. / text

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UTEXAS/oai:repositories.lib.utexas.edu:2152/8901
Date26 October 2010
CreatorsChávez-Esquivel, Alex Emmanuel
Source SetsUniversity of Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Formatelectronic
RightsCopyright is held by the author. Presentation of this material on the Libraries' web site by University Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin was made possible under a limited license grant from the author who has retained all copyrights in the works.

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