TY - BOOK ID - 144909242 TI - Flaco's Legacy : The Globalization of Conjunto PY - 2023 SN - 0252054296 PB - Urbana, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, DB - UniCat KW - Conjunto music KW - Music and globalization. KW - History and criticism. KW - Jiménez, Flaco. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:144909242 AB - A combination of button accordion and bajo sexto, conjunto originated in the Texas-Mexico borderlands as a popular dance music and became a powerful form of regional identity. Today, listeners and musicians around the world have embraced the genre and the work of conjunto masters like Flaco Jiménez and Mingo Saldívar. Erin E. Bauer follows conjunto from its local origins through three processes of globalization - migration via media, hybridization, and appropriation - that boosted the music's reach. As Bauer shows, conjunto's encounter with globalizing forces raises fundamental questions. What is conjunto stylistically and socioculturally? Does context change how we categorize it? Do we consider the music to be conjunto based on its musical characteristics or due to its performance by Jiménez and other regional players? ER -