Does art that depicts violence generate more violence? Taking up a question that touches on contemporary developments such as gangsta rap and schoolyard shootin

The first history of the music that binds together Mexican immigrant communities.

Since the late 1970s, a new folk hero has risen to prominence in the U.S.-Mexico border region and beyond—the narcotrafficker. Celebrated in the narcocorrido,

The first in-depth study of banda, a Mexican and Mexican American musical practice.

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