Mexican Pointy Boots and the Tribal Scene: Global Appropriations of Local Cultural Practices in the Virtual Age by Helena Simonett, César Burgos Dávila

“…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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