Singing for the dead, on and off line: Diversity, migration, and scale in Mexican Muertos music

Language and Communication

Volumn 44, Issue , 2015, Pages 31-43

  Faudree, Paja ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ideologies of difference; Indigeneity; Mexico; Music; Online communication; Scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941021926     PISSN: 02715309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2014.11.004     Document Type: Article

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