Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kun, Josh D.

Titel

The Aural Border

Ist Teil von

• Theatre journal (Washington, D.C.), 2000-03, Vol.52 (1), p.1-21

Ort / Verlag

Washington, D. C: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2000

Quelle

Project MUSE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Wilson through Proposition 187, which cut off all health and educational benefits to undocumented Mexican immigrants, and the community watchdog group Light Up the Border through the nighttime deployment of headlight-blaring cars and trucks to the border fence in a reactionary effort to assist the border patrol in spotting and catching illegals. 3 By listening to Gómez-Peña's performances through the critical ear of the aural border, my aim then is not to exclude the consideration of a multiplicity of other border artists and writers whose work makes musical interventions and is therefore crucial to my larger project of assembling the aural border's archive.4 Indeed, my point is to emphasize and take seriously the important role of sonic composition and performative musical praxis to the work of one of the border's most critiqued and studied figures.\n Indeed, as a final example, two recent independent Chicano films, Miguel Arteta's Star Maps and Jim Mendiola's Pretty Vacant, both employ rock en español as a music of connection between the United States and Mexico.