Review:
"["Mexico in Verse" focuses] on understanding the subjectivities of subaltern social groups through their own forms of lyrical expression or the discursive engagement between dominant elites and subalterns. It helps open a window to understanding the lives and world views of ordinary people and oppressed social groups, challenging or legitimating the dominant discourse of power and the historical formation of national and social identities."--Chris Frazer, author of "Fighting Words: Competing Voices from the Mexican Revolution"
["Mexico in Verse" focuses] on understanding the subjectivities of subaltern social groups through their own forms of lyrical expression or the discursive engagement between dominant elites and subalterns. It helps open a window to understanding the lives and world views of ordinary people and oppressed social groups, challenging or legitimating the dominant discourse of power and the historical formation of national and social identities. Chris Frazer, author of "Fighting Words: Competing Voices from the Mexican Revolution""
This is the first book of its type. It is not a history of music, but rather, a cultural and gendered history of music and verse s use in questioning power and imagining community. Victor M. Macias-Gonzalez, co-editor of Masculinity and Sexuality in Mexico"
Rich in historical data and thoughts about pursuing alternative interpretations of popular lyrical expressions. Choice"
[Mexico in Verse focuses] on understanding the subjectivities of subaltern social groups through their own forms of lyrical expression or the discursive engagement between dominant elites and subalterns. It helps open a window to understanding the lives and world views of ordinary people and oppressed social groups, challenging or legitimating the dominant discourse of power and the historical formation of national and social identities. Chris Frazer, author of Fighting Words: Competing Voices from the Mexican Revolution"
"Rich in historical data and thoughts about pursuing alternative interpretations of popular lyrical expressions."--Choice
"[Mexico in Verse focuses] on understanding the subjectivities of subaltern social groups through their own forms of lyrical expression or the discursive engagement between dominant elites and subalterns. It helps open a window to understanding the lives and world views of ordinary people and oppressed social groups, challenging or legitimating the dominant discourse of power and the historical formation of national and social identities."--Chris Frazer, author of Fighting Words: Competing Voices from the Mexican Revolution
-This is the first book of its type. It is not a history of music, but rather, a cultural and gendered history of music and verse's use in questioning power and imagining community.---Victor M. Macias-Gonzalez, co-editor of Masculinity and Sexuality in Mexico
-[Mexico in Verse focuses] on understanding the subjectivities of subaltern social groups through their own forms of lyrical expression or the discursive engagement between dominant elites and subalterns. It helps open a window to understanding the lives and world views of ordinary people and oppressed social groups, challenging or legitimating the dominant discourse of power and the historical formation of national and social identities.---Chris Frazer, author of Fighting Words: Competing Voices from the Mexican Revolution
-Rich in historical data and thoughts about pursuing alternative interpretations of popular lyrical expressions.---Choice
About the Author:
Stephen Neufeld is an assistant professor of history at California State University, Fullerton, USA where he researches gender and the history of masculinity in military contexts, and social-cultural history in nineteenth-century Mexico.
Michael Matthews is an associate professor of history at Elon University, USA. He is the author of The Civilizing Machine: A Cultural History of Mexican Railroads, 1876–1910.
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