Nortec Rifa!: Electronic Dance Music From Tijuana To The World (Currents In Latin American And Iberian Music)

At the dawn of the twentyfirst century, the Nortec phenomenon emerged from the border city of Tijuana and through the Internet, quickly conquered a global audience. Marketed as a kind of 'ethnic' electronic dance music, Nortec samples sounds of traditional music from the north of Mexico, and transforms them through computer technology used in European and American techno music and electronica.Tijuana has media links to both Mexico and the United States, with peoples, currencies, and cultural goodsperhaps especially musicfrom both sides circulating intensely within the city. Older residents and their more mobile, cosmopolitanminded children thus engage in a constant struggle with identity and nationality, appropriation and authenticity. Nortec music in its very composition encapsulates this city's struggle, resonating with issues felt on the global level, while holding vastly different meanings to the variety of communities that embrace it.With an impressive hybrid of musicology, ethnomusicology, cultural and performance studies, urbanism, and border studies, Nortec Rifa! offers compelling insights into the cultural production of Nortec as it stems from nortea, banda, and grupera traditions. The book is also among the first to offer detailed accounts of Nortec music's composition process.