


Recently however Oaxacan farm workers in Central Valley California have started to embrace the instrument in playing their traditional music called chilena. is a recent wave of migrants from Oaxaca Southern Mexico for whom the accordion has little to do with their regional pride. Hidden behind such a monolithically conceived Mexican population in the U.S. popular imagination the accordion has reaffirmed its status as the musical signifier of not only the genre but also the Mexican population in the U.S. Reimagining Oaxacan Heritage through Accordions and Airwaves in Central Valley California Marié Abe, Harvard UniversityĬonstructed layers of meaning and 2) how those references function as markers of knowledge and awareness within widening discursive circles especially those concerned about race representation trauma and memory.Īs Ry Cooder s 2010 collaboration with the Mexican group Los Tigres del Norte raised the profile of Norteñomusic in the U.S. Society for Ethnomusicology & Congress on Research in Dance
