Mediating Nostalgia: The Meaning of Ranchera Music at a Mexican Community Radio Station

IF 1.5 3区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Communication Culture & Critique Pub Date : 2020-06-11 DOI:10.1093/ccc/tcaa004

J. Hayes

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Abstract

This study investigates a battle over music and identity at Radio Zapotitlán, a community radio station in the state of Jalisco, Mexico. An analysis of over 20 interviews with station organizers, volunteers and listeners conducted in 2009 and 2010 indicates that while organizers and older listeners celebrated Ranchera music as the station’s predominant musical content, younger listeners fought to broadcast contemporary Banda music. An historical and theoretical analysis of Ranchera music explores its cultural role in mediating experiences of migration and nostalgia. This study finds that Radio Zapotitlán organizers promoted Ranchera music in order to engage the national and transnational nostalgia of Zapotitlán’s displaced migrants, and to meet the expectations of government regulators and transnational nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). It concludes that local, regional, national and transnational interests cannot be disentangled in musical articulations of identity at Radio Zapotitlán.

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调解怀旧:墨西哥社区广播电台的Ranchera音乐的意义

这项研究调查了在墨西哥哈利斯科州的一个社区广播电台Zapotitlán中关于音乐和身份的斗争。2009年和2010年对电台组织者、志愿者和听众进行的20多次采访分析表明，当组织者和年长的听众将Ranchera音乐作为电台的主要音乐内容时，年轻的听众则争取播放当代班达音乐。对Ranchera音乐的历史和理论分析探讨了其在迁移和怀旧经历中的文化作用。本研究发现Zapotitlán电台组织者推广Ranchera音乐是为了吸引Zapotitlán流离失所的移民的国家和跨国怀旧情绪，并满足政府监管机构和跨国非政府组织(ngo)的期望。它的结论是，地方，区域，国家和跨国利益不能在Radio Zapotitlán的音乐身份表达中解脱出来。

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Communication Culture & Critique COMMUNICATION-

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2.50

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5.90%

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