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Audible Ancestors

Tamborazo Music and Indigenous Memory in the Borderlands

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Audible Ancestors

Tamborazo Music and Indigenous Memory in the Borderlands

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Audible Ancestors provides a new understanding of music performance and the inheritance of Indigenous epistemologies and methodologies in Greater Mexico.

By examining the audibility of Indigenous ancestry in the negotiation of Mexican subjectivities through danza performance, author Luis Chávez-González amplifies muted Caxcan Indigeneity rooted in the sounds of Regional Mexican music through tamborazo-Zacatecano, a drum-centered style originating from northcentral Mexico.

Based on extensive musical ethnographic research between the US/Mexico border, this book offers an inter-musicological depth to Indigenous sound studies, Indigenous performativity, self-determination, decolonizing methodologies, and borderlands research. This new research considers Indigenous sonic cartographies that continue to that defy erasure amidst US and Mexican colonial normative paradigms by musically crossing, re-crossing, and reimagining place and belonging.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction (In Xúchitl)
2. Borders
3. La Danza De Los Tastuanes
4. Memory, Time, And Space In The Archive
5. Sensorial Technology
6. Greater Mexico, Technepantlan, And The Virtual Pueblo
7. Conclusion (In Cuicatl)
References
Index

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published May 14 2026
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 208
ISBN 9798765134597
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Luis Chávez-González

Dr. Luis Chávez-González is an interdisciplinary m…

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