Coming soon. Wild Tongue: A Borderlands Mixtape
- Author: Leal, Jonathan
Coming soon. Wild Tongue: A Borderlands Mixtape
- Author: Leal, Jonathan
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In Wild Tongue, writer, scholar, and musician Jonathan Leal invites readers to the Texas borderlands to witness contemporary sonic cultures and expressive forms of Latine struggle and world-making. Blending autoethnography, music criticism, and border theory into an epistolary mixtape, Leal depicts the borderlands as a generative place made by its inhabitants, a geography where creativity and cultural performance engage powerfully with politico-aesthetic issues, create communal identity, and challenge xenophobic and nationalist dominance. Across the mixtape’s contrasting “tracks,” Leal situates living artistries within longer, local arcs of borderlands creativity, amplifying Gloria AnzaldÚa’s durable, pathbreaking observation, “Wild tongues can’t be tamed, they can only be cut out.” Combining lyric nonfiction, artist interviews, archival research, transdisciplinary analysis, and popular music criticism and production, Wild Tongue presents an exhilarating, embracing account of freedoms pursued between worlds.
Contents
- dear x— 1
- 00. a mix for open wounds 3
- when the sun sets and the songs begin 14
- 01. magic // valley: notes on names, fantasies, and refusals 15
- 02. flooded: on crises real and imagined 28
- i think of our endless wanderings 41
- 03 the art of sonic place-making: song as autohistoria-teorÍa 42
- 04. heirloom: una memoria 62
- toward the horizon 66
- 05. the archive is a promise: notes on preservation 67
- 06. one hundred searing dawns: un cuento 75
- 07. rocket debris: resisting astro-capital 80
- on loop 80
- 08. beat theory: home, chopped and flipped 90
- 09. infinite set: DJs beyond category 108
- 10. platform sickness: dispatch from the digital maw 122
- i find myself reaching 128
- 11. review corner: five records for transport; or, a music-critical interlude 129
- 12. toward freedom: microprofiles in self-consonance 136
- in the spaces between 146
- 13. the world becomes as we dream it 147
- for us, together again 154
- 14. a mix that won't be tamed 155
- Acknowledgments 157
- Notes 163
- Bibliography 181
- Index 203
