Mexican Pointy Boots and the Tribal Scene: Global Appropriations of Local Cultural Practices in the Virtual Age
In this essay, we examine music and its performative power by engaging in issues such as the localization of global cultural practices, the embracing of cultural practices based on a shared sense of marginalization and peripheralization, as well as the appropriation and resignification of “odd” cult...
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| description | In this essay, we examine music and its performative power by engaging in issues such as the localization of global cultural practices, the embracing of cultural practices based on a shared sense of marginalization and peripheralization, as well as the appropriation and resignification of “odd” cultural practices for global consumption, resulting in a cultural mutation of such practices and their objects from “low” to “art.” Our approach to analyze música tribal, a specific type of Mexican “tribal” electronic dance music that partially originated in Monterrey cumbia and, correspondingly, appealed to youths situated outside the mainstream, is to understand musical practices as related to the re-territorialization of foreign cultural practices that give a voice of social legitimacy to historically marginalized individuals. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-c39db829ec5e4f129e7291403b01b9132025-01-30T10:43:52ZengAssociation Française d'Etudes AméricainesTransatlantica1765-27662016-01-01110.4000/transatlantica.7596Mexican Pointy Boots and the Tribal Scene: Global Appropriations of Local Cultural Practices in the Virtual AgeHelena SimonettCésar Burgos DávilaIn this essay, we examine music and its performative power by engaging in issues such as the localization of global cultural practices, the embracing of cultural practices based on a shared sense of marginalization and peripheralization, as well as the appropriation and resignification of “odd” cultural practices for global consumption, resulting in a cultural mutation of such practices and their objects from “low” to “art.” Our approach to analyze música tribal, a specific type of Mexican “tribal” electronic dance music that partially originated in Monterrey cumbia and, correspondingly, appealed to youths situated outside the mainstream, is to understand musical practices as related to the re-territorialization of foreign cultural practices that give a voice of social legitimacy to historically marginalized individuals.https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/7596hybridity; transnational/subcultural identity; mass communication; global technological and economic development; social media networks; virtual ethnographypointy bootstribal dance musicmúsica tribalDavid Guetta |
| spellingShingle | Helena Simonett César Burgos Dávila Mexican Pointy Boots and the Tribal Scene: Global Appropriations of Local Cultural Practices in the Virtual Age Transatlantica hybridity; transnational/subcultural identity; mass communication; global technological and economic development; social media networks; virtual ethnography pointy boots tribal dance music música tribal David Guetta |
| title | Mexican Pointy Boots and the Tribal Scene: Global Appropriations of Local Cultural Practices in the Virtual Age |
| title_full | Mexican Pointy Boots and the Tribal Scene: Global Appropriations of Local Cultural Practices in the Virtual Age |
| title_fullStr | Mexican Pointy Boots and the Tribal Scene: Global Appropriations of Local Cultural Practices in the Virtual Age |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mexican Pointy Boots and the Tribal Scene: Global Appropriations of Local Cultural Practices in the Virtual Age |
| title_short | Mexican Pointy Boots and the Tribal Scene: Global Appropriations of Local Cultural Practices in the Virtual Age |
| title_sort | mexican pointy boots and the tribal scene global appropriations of local cultural practices in the virtual age |
| topic | hybridity; transnational/subcultural identity; mass communication; global technological and economic development; social media networks; virtual ethnography pointy boots tribal dance music música tribal David Guetta |
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