This author pointed out the ubiquity of images of terroir in everyday life in the destination country and various practices that contribute to the construction of transnational ties. This emotion was studied in depth from a transnational perspective (Glick-Schiller, Basch and Blanc-Szanton, 1992) by Hirai (2009), who explored the construction, representation and impact of nostalgia around migration from Jalisco to California. A dominant and persistent emotion that migrants experience when listening to Mexican popular music in both destination and origin places is nostalgia. The music they listened to in the country of origin not only accompanies migrants in different activities of daily life in the country of destination, but is also a substantial element that is part of the cultural landscape of the communities of origin in Mexico when they are visited by numerous migrants and their families during vacation periods. Listening to popular music of various genres in Spanish is one of the cultural practices that have been disseminated among Mexican migrants in the United States to maintain symbolic and emotional ties with Mexico and their homelands. Keywords: popular music, nostalgia, consumption, transnationalism, soundscape. On the other hand, in the context of the visits of migrants and their families to their places of origin in northeastern Mexico, they listen to popular music to express their nostalgia and induce a nostalgic attitude in spaces of family and social reunion, creating a different soundscape to the one found in the time of absence of migrants. On the one hand, this emotion prevails in the everyday lives of Mexican migrants in Houston, through their practices, behind which Mexican popular music is present, along with images of the homelands. Our work explores the role played by the music and emotions in the constructions of transnational ties, from two ethnographical vignettes related to nostalgia. Music, Emotions and Consumption in the Texas-northeastern Mexico Migration Circuits. Keywords: consumption, popular music, nostalgia, soundscape, transnationalism Migration Soundscapes.
On the other hand, in the context of the visit of migrants and their families to the places of origin in northeastern Mexico, popular music is heard to express their nostalgia and induce a nostalgic attitude in the spaces of family and social reunion, creating a distinct soundscape of the season of migrants' absence. On the one hand, this emotion prevails in the daily life of Mexican migrants in Houston, through their diverse practices, behind which Mexican popular music is present along with images of the terroir. This paper explores the role of music and emotions in the construction of transnational ties, based on two ethnographic vignettes related to nostalgia.
Emotions and meanings in transnational migration", Nueva Antropología 81 (2014). ( uam/Juan Pablos Editor, 2009) and the article "La nostalgia. A study on the transformation of the urban landscape in transnational migration between Mexico and the United States. He is the author of the book Political economy of nostalgia. His areas of research are transnationalism, anthropology of emotions and international migration. He holds a PhD in Anthropological Sciences from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa, and is a member of the National System of Researchers level 1. * Shinji Hirai Japanese anthropologist living in Mexico.
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