Book Review
Mar. 12th, 2017 09:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariMusic in Mexico
by Alejandro L. Madrid
Another solid entry in Oxford University Press' Global Music series, Music in Mexico is a fascinating look at popular music in Mexico from the early days of the country through to the present. Madrid focuses on regional and transnational aspects of Mexican music genres, particularly the relationship that these genres have with Mexican immigrants and Mexican-Americans in the United States. I also appreciated the way Madrid brought in the contexts of Mexican social and political situations during different decades and eras, and the way he tied in the development of Mexican media.* Finally, I enjoyed learning to parse out and recognize different genres and how they fit into what I would recognize as the typical sounds of Mexican and Latin American music. My only complaint is that the book too often directed the reader to a companion website or to look things up on the web.
*This last point did often result in a certain Wall of Voodoo song going through my head.
by Alejandro L. Madrid
Another solid entry in Oxford University Press' Global Music series, Music in Mexico is a fascinating look at popular music in Mexico from the early days of the country through to the present. Madrid focuses on regional and transnational aspects of Mexican music genres, particularly the relationship that these genres have with Mexican immigrants and Mexican-Americans in the United States. I also appreciated the way Madrid brought in the contexts of Mexican social and political situations during different decades and eras, and the way he tied in the development of Mexican media.* Finally, I enjoyed learning to parse out and recognize different genres and how they fit into what I would recognize as the typical sounds of Mexican and Latin American music. My only complaint is that the book too often directed the reader to a companion website or to look things up on the web.
*This last point did often result in a certain Wall of Voodoo song going through my head.
