{"product_id":"northward-bound-the-mexican-immigrant-experience-in-ballad-and-song-9780253327376","title":"Northward Bound: The Mexican Immigrant Experience in Ballad and Song","description":"\u003cp\u003e\". . . provides a valuable service of not only gathering and presenting from 5 000 song texts a wide variety of ballads with full translation but also placing them all in a succinct historical context extending from the Mexican War to the present.\" Journal of American Ethnic History  \" . . . a stunning achievement  not only because it is an intelligent and comprehensive study of Mexican immigrant ballads  but because analysis gives way to  steps aside respectfully for  a multitude of immigrants who sing their experiences of crossing the border into the U.S. with astonishing clarity and historical perspicacity.\" Western Folklore  \"Herrera-Sobeks folk-song collection is impressive  as are her English translationscrisp and unstilted.\" MultiCultural Review  \"Herrera-Sobeks well-written book provides historians  ethnomusicologists  sociologists  and other scholars with a case study that demonstrates how valuable song lyrics can be in their studies. Strongly recommended to humanists and social scientists.\" Choice  \"Supported with photographs  full documentation and other scholarly devices  this is a solid work on an unusual topic.\" Sing Out!  Northward Bound traces Mexican emigration to the United States from 1848 to 1991 through the lyrics of Mexican ballads (corridos) and contemporary popular songs (canciones). These autobiographical songs reflect the relationship between individual experience and the history-making process.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652249247797,"sku":"ByrdShop_0253327377","price":39.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780253327376.jpg?v=1781850290","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/northward-bound-the-mexican-immigrant-experience-in-ballad-and-song-9780253327376","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}