- 223 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
In Wild Tongue, writer, scholar, and musician Jonathan Leal invites readers to the Texas borderlands to witness contemporary sonic cultures and expressive forms of Latine struggle and world-making. Blending autoethnography, music criticism, and border theory into an epistolary mixtape, Leal depicts the borderlands as a generative place made by its inhabitants, a geography where creativity and cultural performance engage powerfully with politico-aesthetic issues, create communal identity, and challenge xenophobic and nationalist dominance. Across the mixtape's contrasting "tracks," Leal situates living artistries within longer, local arcs of borderlands creativity, amplifying Gloria Anzaldúa's durable, pathbreaking observation, "Wild tongues can't be tamed, they can only be cut out." Combining lyric nonfiction, artist interviews, archival research, transdisciplinary analysis, and popular music criticism and production, Wild Tongue presents an exhilarating, embracing account of freedoms pursued between worlds.
Information
Publisher
Duke University Press BooksYear
2025Print ISBN
9781478039266
9781478034308
eBook ISBN
9781478062875
Subtopic
EthnomusicologyTable of contents
- Cover
- Tracklist
- dear x—
- 00 a mix for open wounds
- when the sun sets and the songs begin
- 01 magic // valley: notes on names, fantasies, and refusals
- 02 flooded: on crises real and imagined
- i think of our endless wanderings
- 03 the art of sonic place-making: song as autohistoria-teoría
- 04 heirloom: una memoria
- toward the horizon
- 05 the archive is a promise: notes on preservation
- 06 one hundred searing dawns: un cuento
- 07 rocket debris: resisting astro-capital
- on loop
- 08 beat theory: home, chopped and flipped
- 09 infinite set: DJs beyond category
- 10 platform sickness: dispatch from the digital maw
- i find myself reaching
- 11 review corner: five records for transport; or, a music-critical interlude
- 12 toward freedom: microprofiles in self-consonance
- in the spaces between
- 13 the world becomes as we dream it
- for us, together again
- 14 a mix that won’t be tamed
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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