This book explores the transnational connections that inform the large diversity of musical traditions from the U.S.-Mexico border while keeping an eye on their powerful local significance, in an attempt to redefine notions like "border," "nation," "migration," and "diaspora."

LIST OF FIGURES; LIST OF MUSIC EXAMPLES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; MAP OF THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER; CHAPTER 1. TRANSNATIONAL MUSICAL ENCOUNTERS AT THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER: AN INTRODUCTION BY ALEJANDRO L. MADRID; I. BORDER MEANINGS; CHAPTER 2. REGGAE ON THE BORDER: THE POSSIBILITIES OF A FRONTERA SOUNDSCAPE BY LUIS ALVAREZ; CHAPTER 3. BREAKING BORDERS / QUEBRANDO FRONTERAS: DANCING IN THE BORDERSCAPE BY SYDNEY HUTCHINSON; CHAPTER 4. NARCOCORRIDOS: NARRATIVES OF A CULTURAL PERSONA AND POWER ON THE BORDER BY MARK C. EDBERG; II. NATIONALISMS; CHAPTER 5. MARIACHI REIMAGININGS: ENCOUNTERS WITH TECHNOLOGY, AESTHETICS, AND IDENTITY BY DONALD HENRIQUES; CHAPTER 6. "THIS IS OUR MUSICA, GUY!: TEJANOS AND ETHNO/REGIONAL MUSICAL NATIONALISM BY JOSE E. LIMON; III. INDIGENEITY AND MODERNITY; CHAPTER 7. RE-LOCALIZED RAP AND ITS REPRESENTATION OF THE HOMBRE DIGNO BY HELENA SIMONETT; CHAPTER 8. WAILA AS TRANSNATIONAL PRACTICE BY JOAN TITUS; IV. CULTURAL CITIZENSHIP AND RIGHTS; CHAPTER 9. TRANSNATIONAL IDENTITY, THE SINGING OF AND THE