Banda: Mexican Musical Life Across Borders

by Helena Simonette and Helena Simonett

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

Runner-up for the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) - US Chapter Book Award. (2002)

Banda music has been performed by traditional brass bands in rural northwestern Mexico for more than a century, while technobanda, a newer style that has replaced the brass instruments with synthesizers and electric instruments,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819564303
• ISBN13: 9780819564306
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher