Transnationalism and Duranguense: Music's Influence on Identity in Mexican Chicago
This is an ethnographic study on the connection between the transnational entity of duranguense and the transnational identity of the Mexican population of Chicago. It is a study on the continued popularity of this music as a result of giving people a space and form of expression to be themselves, to feel both Chicagoan and Mexican, in essence, the ways in which music helps create a more salient identity. The methods of this research are observation at two venues that play this selection of music and interviews with people that attend these places. The questions asked relate to identity and reasons for listening to duranguense and the meaning of the lyrics to the people that listen to them. The intention of this research is to link the displacement caused by immigrant and minority status to the creation of a space and form of expression in an effort to allocate their community in Chicago society.
School:
Brown University
Department:
International Studies, Hispanic Studies
Research Advisor:
Junaid Rana
Department of Research Advisor:
Asian American Studies and Anthropology
Year of Publication:
2007