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Photo Essay .................... Southern Borderlands Music, Migrant Life, and Scenes of a "Mexican South" by Alex E. Chávez It's a typical sweltering July evening in central Texas, close to ten o'clock. The incandescent buzz of city lights in the distance washes over the night sky, an amber glow that crowns the ballroom outside of town where an anxious gathering of Mexican migrants saunters along concrete bleachers; some lean out across the flanking metal railing and peer toward the crowd of several hundred below. The buzz of laughter and conversation nervously crescendos every now and then in anticipation of the musical performance everyone is awaiting. These soon-to-be dancers are nestled between two tablados (raised benches) positioned at opposite ends of the dance floor. A few of the musicians drove in from northern Mississippi for the night--just south of the Tennessee border. It's hard to imagine, considering Hurricane Katrina pounded the Gulf Coast a mere two weeks prior. Fallen trees and downed power lines marked the damage. Surely--they knowingly anticipate--they will be folded into the rapid response labor force required to clean up and repair the region. They already work construction, pave roads, and plant pine trees in those parts.
Southern Cultures – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Oct 4, 2015
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