{"title":"Introduction. At the Vanishing Point: Prehistory as Symptom in American Art and Visual Culture","authors":"Jonathan Dentler","doi":"10.4000/15i27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/15i27","url":null,"abstract":"“The geologist will demonstrate that the plunge, or fall, was once at Lake Ontario, and has worn its way back to its present position; he will ascertain how fast it is wearing now, and so get a basis for determining how long it has been wearing back from Lake Ontario, and finally demonstrate by it that this world is at least fourteen thousand years old… But still there is more. It calls up the indefinite past. When Columbus first sought this continent—when Christ suffered on the cross—when M...","PeriodicalId":513710,"journal":{"name":"Transatlantica","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"http://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/pdf/27178","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147883498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
TransatlanticaPub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.4000/transatlantica.7596
Helena Simonett, César Burgos Dávila
{"title":"Mexican Pointy Boots and the Tribal Scene: Global Appropriations of Local Cultural Practices in the Virtual Age","authors":"Helena Simonett, César Burgos Dávila","doi":"10.4000/transatlantica.7596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/transatlantica.7596","url":null,"abstract":"In this essay, we examine music and its performative power by engaging in issues such as the localization of global cultural practices, the embracing of cultural practices based on a shared sense of marginalization and peripheralization, as well as the appropriation and resignification of “odd” cultural practices for global consumption, resulting in a cultural mutation of such practices and their objects from “low” to “art.” Our approach to analyze música tribal, a specific type of Mexican “tribal” electronic dance music that partially originated in Monterrey cumbia and, correspondingly, appealed to youths situated outside the mainstream, is to understand musical practices as related to the re-territorialization of foreign cultural practices that give a voice of social legitimacy to historically marginalized individuals.","PeriodicalId":513710,"journal":{"name":"Transatlantica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147914244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}