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The inevitable bandstand : the state band of Oaxaca and the politics of sound
\"An examination of the histories of Mexico and Oaxaca and the creation of the identity of the modern political state through the Banda de Música del Estado de Oaxaca (Music Band of the State of Oaxaca; BME)\" Provided by publisher.
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The roots of conservatism in Mexico : Catholicism, society, and politics in the Mixteca Baja, 1750-1962
The Roots of Conservatism is the first attempt to ask why over the past two centuries so many Mexican peasants have opted to ally with conservative groups rather than their radical counterparts. Blending socioeconomic history, cultural analysis, and political narrative, Smith's study begins with the late Bourbon period and moves through the early republic, the mid-nineteenth-century Reforma, the Porfiriato, and the Revolution, when the Mixtecs rejected Zapatista offers of land distribution, ending with the armed religious uprising known as the \"last Cristiada,\" a desperate Cold War bid to rid the region of impious \"communist\" governance. In recounting this long tradition of regional conservatism, Smith emphasizes the influence of religious belief, church ritual, and lay-clerical relations both on social relations and on political affiliation. He posits that many Mexican peasants embraced provincial conservatism, a variant of elite or metropolitan conservatism, which not only comprised ideas on property, hierarchy, and the state, but also the overwhelming import of the church to maintaining this system.
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Indigenous Citizens
Indigenous Citizens challenges the commonly held assumption that early nineteenth-century Mexican state-building was a failure of liberalism. By comparing the experiences of two Mexican states, Oaxaca and Yucatán, Caplan shows how the institutions and ideas associated with liberalism became deeply entrenched in Mexico's regions, but only on locally acceptable terms.
Faced with the common challenge of incorporating new institutions into political life, Mexicans-be they indigenous villagers, government officials, or local elites-negotiated ways to make those institutions compatible with a range of local interests. Although Oaxaca and Yucatán both had large indigenous majorities, the local liberalisms they constructed incorporated indigenous people differently as citizens. As a result, Oaxaca experienced relative social peace throughout this era, while Yucatán exploded with indigenous rebellion beginning in 1847.
This book puts the interaction between local and national liberalisms at the center of the narrative of Mexico's nineteenth century. It suggests that \"liberalism\" must be understood not as an overarching system imposed on the Mexican nation but rather as a set of guiding assumptions and institutions that Mexicans put to use in locally specific ways.
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The Inevitable Bandstand
In the hands of the state, music is a political tool. The Banda de Música del Estado de Oaxaca (State Band of Oaxaca, BME), a civil organization nearly as old as the modern state of Oaxaca itself, offers unique insights into the history of a modern political state.
InThe Inevitable Bandstand, Charles V. Heath examines the BME's role as a part of popular political culture that the state of Oaxaca has deployed in an attempt to bring unity and order to its domain. The BME has always served multiple functions: it arose from musical groups that accompanied military forces as they trained and fought; today it performs at village patron saint days and at Mexico's patriotic celebrations, propagating religions both sacred and civic; it offers education in the ways of liberal democracy to its population, once largely illiterate; and finally, it provides respite from the burdens of life by performing at strictly diversionary functions such as serenades and Sunday matinees.
In each of these government-sanctioned roles, the BME serves to unify, educate, and entertain the diverse and fragmented elements within the state of Oaxaca, thereby mirroring the historical trajectory of the state of Oaxaca and the nation of Mexico from the pre-Hispanic and Spanish colonial eras to the nascent Mexican republic, from a militarized and fractured young nation to a consolidated postrevolutionary socialist state, and from a predominantly Catholic entity to an ostensibly secular one.
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Runaway Daughters
Against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Oaxaca City, Kathryn Sloan analyzes rapto trials--cases of abduction and/or seduction of a minor--to gain insight beyond the actual crime and into the reality that testimonies by parents, their children, and witnesses reveal about courtship practices, generational conflict, the negotiation of honor, and the relationship between the state and its working-class citizens in post colonial Mexico.
Unlike the colonial era where paternal rule was absolute, Sloan found that the state began to usurp parental authority in the home with the introduction of liberal reform laws. As these laws began to shape the terms of civil marriage, the courtroom played a more significant role in the resolution of familial power struggles and the restoration of family honor in rapto cases. Youths could now exert a measure of independence by asserting their rights to marry whom they wished. In examining these growing rifts between the liberal state and familial order within its lower order citizens, Sloan highlights the role that youths and the working class played in refashioning systems of marriage, honor, sexuality, parental authority, and filial obedience.
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Delineating the Peace: Marking Oaxaca's State Boundaries, 1856–1912
This article analyses efforts by the state of Oaxaca to mark its border from 1856 to 1912. State officials hoped to demarcate a permanent border along the frontier as a way to delineate a peaceful ending to on-going boundary disputes, some of which allegedly dated to pre-Columbian times. The activity of marking Oaxaca's boundary effectively represented a literal process of Mexican state formation. Oaxaca officials attempted to negotiate the state's jurisdictional limits in cooperation with other federations as well as with their own citizens as they located the parameters of the state and the limits of its authority during the era. Este artículo analiza los esfuerzos del estado de Oaxaca para delimitar sus fronteras de 1856 a 1912. Los funcionarios estatales esperaron demarcar un borde permanente a lo largo de la frontera como forma de delinear un fin pacífico a las constantes disputas limítrofes, algunas de las cuales, se creía, se habían originado en la época prehispánica. El marcar la frontera de Oaxaca representó efectivamente un proceso literal de formación del estado en México. Los funcionarios oaxaqueños intentaron negociar los límites jurisdiccionales estatales en cooperación con otras federaciones así como con sus propios ciudadanos en la medida que definieron los parámetros del estado y los límites de su autoridad durante esa era. Este artigo analisa os esforços do estado de Oaxaca em demarcar suas fronteiras entre os anos de 1856 e 1912. Funcionários públicos desejavam demarcar uma divisa permanente ao longo da fronteira como uma forma de promover um desfecho pacífico às constantes disputas fronteiriças, algumas das quais alegadamente datavam do período pré-colombiano. A atividade de demarcação dos limites de Oaxaca representou literalmente o processo de formação do Estado mexicano. Funcionários do estado de Oaxaca buscaram negociar os limites jurisdicionais do estado em cooperação com outros entes federados e com seus próprios cidadãos na medida em que localizavam os limites do Estado e o alcance de sua autoridade durante esta época.
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