Se Que Voy a Regresar: Migrant Music and Globalization in the Nuevo South

Migrant music is an immediately noticeable aspect of the unprecedented and massive recent Latino immigration to the American South. This article examines the evolving embeddedness of migrant music culture in the new context of a globalized South. The unique historical and socioeconomic moment produced by Latino immigration is rightly viewed as a unique musical moment worth detailed study. This article evaluates globalized acculturation in the region both by demonstrating the resilience of traditional music in new migrant populations and by tracing the significant and unexpected rise of hybridization in the music being produced. It describes events involving migrant music, such as norteno bands in North Carolina and Mexican rodeos in Virginia. In so doing, this article describes the type, transfer, and process of migrant music and presents the evolving meaning of the music in its new regional context. This approach incorporates the insights of southern history and globalization theory as well as ethnomusicology. Music is a vital part of southern tradition, culture, and identity, and it is an appreciable if not core aspect of migrant culture. Music is also an excellent means of mapping complicated new southern regional identities. These changes are enriching a new southern identity for the global age. Studying migrant music is a means of understanding the impact of globalization on the South and regional identity as it also a means of understanding globalization itself

The extraterritoriality of law: History, theory, politics. Introduction.

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book examines the different historical and geographical contexts in which extraterritorial regimes have developed, the myriad political and economic pressures in response to which such regimes have grown, the highly uneven distributions of extraterritorial privilege that have resulted from these processes. It demonstrates that assertions of legal authority ‘beyond’ territorial frontiers have always played a central role in the constitution and consolidation of sovereignty. The book explains extra-territorial jurisdiction in the legal strategies and ‘state spaces’ of US empire, both before and after the Second World War. It also explores the question of the extraterritorial application of the European Convention of Human Rights, one of the most controversial issues faced by the Strasbourg court. The book is concerned with the limitations of thinking about legal obligations through the prism of extraterritoriality

Report of Second Meeting for the Purpose of Obtaining the Views of the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation on the Lieu Lands Offered by the Secretary of War, 1946

Report of the second meeting held in the office of Assistant Secretary of the Interior C. Girard Davidson for the purpose of obtaining the views of the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation of the lieu lands offered by the Secretary of War. Includes a list of attendees and a transcript of the meeting discussing the Three Affiliated Tribes\u27 rejection of the offer of lieu lands made by the Secretary of Interior and Department of War to the Fort Berthold Reservation. See also: Report of Meeting for the Purpose of Obtaining the Views of the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation on the Lieu Lands Offered by the Secretary of War, 1946https://commons.und.edu/langer-papers/1147/thumbnail.jp

Developing Standards for Cultural Competency Training for Health Care Providers to Care for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual Persons: Consensus Recommendations from a National Panel

Purpose: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and/or asexual and other sexual and gender diverse persons (LGBTQIA + or SGD persons) experience barriers to equitable health care. The purpose of this article is to describe a collaborative process that resulted in core cultural competency recommendations addressing training for those who provide health care and/or social services to LGBTQIA + patients. Methods: In 2018 and 2019, Whitman-Walker Health, a Federally Qualified Community Health Center in Washing- ton, DC, and the National LGBT Cancer Network purposively selected leaders of community clinics and community-based organizations, cultural competency trainers, and clinicians and researchers with expertise in SGD health with diverse lived experiences to develop consensus-based cultural competency recommendations. Recommendations were developed through a synthesis of peer-reviewed studies, publicly accessible curricula, and evaluations of SGD cultural competency trainings; two in-person convenings; and iterative feedback from diverse stakeholders. Results: Five anchoring recommendations emerged: (1) know your audience; (2) develop and fine-tune the curriculum; (3) employ both adult and transformational learning theories; (4) choose multiple effective trainers; and (5) evaluate impact of training. These recommendations promote an ongoing process of individual and organizational improvement and a stance of humility rather than competence to be mastered. Conclusion: By setting core cultural competency standards for all persons involved in health care and social services, these recommendations complement existing clinical competency recommendations to advance SGD health equity

Henry Watterson and the New South: The Politics of Empire, Free Trade, and Globalization

Henry Watterson (1840–1921), editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal from the 1860s through World War I, was one of the most important and widely read newspaper editors in American history. An influential New South supporter of sectional reconciliation and economic development, Watterson was also the nation\u27s premier advocate of free trade and globalization. Watterson\u27s vision of a prosperous and independent South within an expanding American empire was unique among prominent Southerners and Democrats. He helped articulate the bipartisan embrace of globalization that accompanied America\u27s rise to unmatched prosperity and world power. This book restores Watterson to his place at the heart of late nineteenth-century southern and American history by combining biographical narrative with an evaluation of Watterson\u27s unique involvement in the politics of free trade and globalization.https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_united_states_history/1186/thumbnail.jp

Music Community, Improvisation, and Social Technologies in COVID-Era Música Huasteca

This article examines two interrelated aspects of Mexican regional music response to the coronavirus crisis in the música huasteca community: the growth of interactive huapango livestreams as a preexisting but newly significant space for informal community gathering and cultural participation at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, and the composition of original verses by son huasteco performers addressing the pandemic. Both the livestreams and the newly created coronavirus disease (COVID) verses reflect critical improvisatory approaches to the pandemic in música huasteca. The interactive livestreams signaled an ad hoc community infrastructure facilitated by social media and an emerging community space fostered by Do-It-Yourself (DIY) activists. Improvised COVID-related verses presented resonant local and regional themes as a community response to a global crisis. Digital ethnography conducted since March 2020 revealed a regional burst of musical creativity coupled with DIY intentionality, a leveling of access to virtual community spaces, and enhanced digital intimacies established across a wide cultural diaspora in Mexico and the USA. These responses were musically, poetically, and organizationally improvisational, as was the overall outpouring of the son huasteco music inspired by the coronavirus outbreak. Son huasteco is a folk music tradition from the Huasteca, a geo-cultural region spanning the intersection of six states in central Mexico. This study examines a selection of musical responses by discussing improvisational examples in both Spanish and the indigenous language Nahuatl, and in the virtual musical communities of the Huasteca migrant diaspora in digital events such as “Encuentro Virtual de Tríos Huastecos,” the “Huapangos Sin Fronteras” festival and competition, and in the nightly gatherings on social media platforms developed during the pandemic to sustain the Huastecan cultural expression. These phenomena have served as vibrant points of transnational connection and identity in a time where physical gatherings were untenable.Musi

#QuédateEnCasa y Huapango! Diasporic Community and Musical Wellbeing in Streamed Live Performances of Son Huasteco music

This article is an examination of the varied ways in which online music performances and gatherings via YouTube livestreams served as foundational affective spaces in the son huasteco community’s response to the coronavirus crisis. Son huasteco is a folk music tradition from the Huasteca, a geo-cultural region spanning the intersection of six states in central Mexico. Huapango is the term used to describe the style’s musical repertory as well as the communal and competitive events at which it is performed. Through interviews and the analysis of audio, video, and chatroom text, this study describes and theorizes the emergent social infrastructure of the cyber-Huasteca and the live-streamed virtual huapangos around which this technologically-mediated community is oriented. This study demonstrates how these virtual spaces played an important role in the maintenance of emotional and social wellbeing at a time of collective duress, while also serving as a platform for discussion, information-sharing, and normsetting in the face of a global health crisis. Focusing on the early pandemic period between March and August, 2020, this study examines both highly-organized digital huapango events as well as more quotidian nightly livestreams where the chat function serves as a community forum. These regularized events have sustained Huastecan musical culture while traditional huapangos became untenable due to social distancing, and have opened new avenues for transnational participation across the diaspora. This study further reveals how the digital infrastructure created before the pandemic to fulfill the emotional wellbeing needs of the diaspora readily scaled to meet the challenges of the coronavirus moment and the needs for connection among the wider huapanguero community. This trajectory is highlighted through a close study of YouTube channel GavBroadcast and its development into a popular epicenter of digital huapango culture. Drawing from the literature on music and wellbeing, DIY archiving, participatory media platforms, and music, affect, and diaspora, this study contextualizes observations of a novel and emergent digital habitat within larger phenomena at the nexus of pandemic, technology, society, and culture.Musi