‘Our Culture’s Not for Sale!’: Music and the Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca in Mexico

Marsh, Hazel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1633-6484 (2021) ‘Our Culture’s Not for Sale!’: Music and the Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca in Mexico. Bulletin of Latin American Research, 40 (3). pp. 416-431. ISSN 0261-3050

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Abstract

The Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca (APPO), a social movement that emerged in June 2006, was a response to severe government repression of a teachers' strike in Oaxaca, Mexico. This article focuses on the movement participants' involvement with music, and the innovative ways in which songs associated with APPO were shared and circulated during the conflict. APPO's engagement with musical activities created spaces in which the political significance of regional culture was reinterpreted and re-signified. APPO, despite failing in its primary political objectives, thus generated new ways of relating to the performance, representation, politics and consumption of musical traditions.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: Published in Special Issue: Special Section: Exploring the Repertoire of Strategies of Resistance to Routinized Violence in Informal Workplaces
Uncontrolled Keywords: popular music,politics,culture,social movements,oaxaca,mexico,geography, planning and development,development ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3305
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Migration Research Network
Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Language and Communication Studies
Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Cultural Politics, Communications & Media
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Date Deposited: 20 May 2020 00:14
Last Modified: 21 Jul 2023 09:54
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/75248
DOI: 10.1111/blar.13134

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