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Spaces of Law in American Foreign Relations
In the late nineteenth century the United States oversaw a great increase in extraterritorial claims, boundary disputes, extradition controversies, and transborder abduction and interdiction. In this sweeping history of the underpinnings of American empire, Daniel S. Margolies offers a new frame of analysis for historians to understand how novel assertions of legal spatiality and extraterritoriality were deployed in U.S. foreign relations during an era of increased national ambitions and global connectedness.
Whether it was in the Mexican borderlands or in other hot spots around the globe, Margolies shows that American policy responded to disputes over jurisdiction by defining the space of law on the basis of a strident unilateralism. Especially significant and contested were extradition regimes and the exceptions carved within them. Extradition of fugitives reflected critical questions of sovereignty and the role of the state in foreign affair during the run-up to overseas empire in 1898.
Using extradition as a critical lens, Spaces of Law in American Foreign Relations examines the rich embeddedness of questions of sovereignty, territoriality, legal spatiality, and citizenship and shows that U.S. hegemonic power was constructed in significant part in the spaces of law, not simply through war or trade.
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A companion to Harry S. Truman
With contributions from the most accomplished scholars in the field, this fascinating companion to one of America's pivotal presidents assesses Harry S.Truman as a historical figure, politician, president and strategist.
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Música, Muerte, y Jaripeo: Sound, Gender, and Violence in Diasporic Mexican Rodeo Videos
Jaripeos connect bands, bulls, riders, and individuals in the US diaspora with regional Mexican musical and rodeo cultures in a dynamic transnational flow of culture, commerce, and sound. The ubiquity of the brass band style of music called banda as well as accordion driven norteño music (and sometimes other styles) at jaripeos, and in the numerous jaripeo music videos for sale at flea markets and other places Mexican and migrant music is sold, makes jaripeos a significant window into the sonic experience of Mexican migrant life in the United States.
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Introduction: Music and Sound in American Culture
All of the authors emphasize the relationship between sonic landscapes of life, music making, and regimes of gender. Because the articles in this issue are produced by scholars in a wide array of fields, the tone and approach of each are different. [...]considering challenges to gender norms and social constraints, Kathleen B. Casey's \"'The Jewish Girl with the Colored Voice': Sophie Tucker and the Sounds of Gender and Race in Modern America\" paints a riveting portrait of this transformational artist who variously and creatively manipulated \"her image, environment, and sound\" to appear as \"white, Jewish, black, manly and womanly\" at various strategic moments in her career. [...]importantly, he conclusively establishes the need to study dance and movement in addition to exploring sonic aspects of life and musical performance. This article very effectively utilizes ethnographic description and direct participation to construct the first portrait of the MexicanAmerican dance community existing today in San Antonio, a region every bit as distinctive in its way as Ruchala's Surry County.
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Voz de Pueblo Chicano: Sustainability, Teaching, and Intangible Cultural Transfer in Conjunto Music
When Max Baca arrived for the bajo sexto workshop, he was surprised that two people (me and a retired machinist and former conjunto radio disc jockey who did his own instrument repairs) had weathered the storm and stayed in the leaking theater to learn the fundamentals. The workshops I attended and observed, and similar events newly being created in the region, are examples of the increasingly formalized processes by which conjunto music and culture are taught and sustained in contemporary south Texas outside the norms of traditional community cultural transfer. The key to sustainability and to embedding the teaching of this culture within US schools at all levels lies, quite simply, with the willingness of people to step out of their self-created ruts, in Soto's terms, and to become engaged and passionate, as Tejeda urges.
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Reimagined Old-Time Music Cultures in the Trainhopping Punk Rock South
Trainhopping punks began appearing in increasing numbers at Appalachian old-time music festivals in the early years of the twenty-first century. They were not hard to pick out from the crowds of locals and revivalist aficionados at places like the Mount Airy Fiddlers Convention in North Carolina, or the Appalachian String Band Contest in West Virginia. Trainhoppers looked different and were different. For one, the most hard-core of this group really did arrive by riding illicitly on trains and then, perhaps, hitchhiking the last few miles to the festivals. Even among the crowds of aging hippies and scruffy campers meeting in
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Latino Migrant Music and Identity in the Borderlands of the New South
Southern regional distinctiveness can be located at least in part in southern music. Since music is such a vital part of southern culture and identity, and because it is an appreciable if not core aspect of migrant culture, it is essential to consider in depth the musical impact of transnational migration on the South.
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