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Wild Tongue: A Borderlands Mixtape

Wild Tongue: A Borderlands Mixtape

Leal, Jonathan

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Latino StudiesPhysicsWorld Music

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ISBN10: 1478039264
ISBN13: 9781478039266
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Oct 27 2026
Pages: 222
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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