Course
GEOG-331 Latin America
Document Type
Student Paper
Publication Date
Winter 2-17-2016
Disciplines
Anthropology | Chicana/o Studies | Ethnomusicology | Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Geography | Latina/o Studies | Social and Cultural Anthropology
Description, Abstract, or Artist's Statement
This paper looks into the cultural synthesization and the transnational ties of cumbia between Latin America and the United States. Three case studies look at the story of migrants and their transnational ties through cumbia and are analyzed through an ethnomusicology framework.
Augustana Digital Commons Citation
Mekus, Irene L.. "Music and the Migrant: A Transnational Account of Cumbia" (2016). Audre Lorde Writing Prize.
https://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/wollstonecraftaward/15
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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Chicana/o Studies Commons, Ethnomusicology Commons, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, Geography Commons, Latina/o Studies Commons, Social and Cultural Anthropology Commons
Comments
2nd Place Winner, Long Analytical Essay, 2016