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Wild Tongue

A Borderlands Mixtape
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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 Anzaldua'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.
Jonathan Leal is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Dreams in Double Time: On Race, Freedom, and Bebop, also published by Duke University Press, and coeditor of Cybermedia: Explorations in Science, Sound, and Vision.
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