Wild Tongue by Jonathan Leal - ISBN: 9781478034308
Hardcover
Borderlands’ wild tongues sing freedom, defying borders and building worlds.
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Wild Tongue

A Borderlands Mixtape

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  • Hardcover

    216 pages

  • Release Date

    27 October 2026

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Summary

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 ident…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781478034308
ISBN-10:1478034300
Author:Jonathan Leal
Publisher:Duke University Press
Imprint:Duke University Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:216
Release Date:27 October 2026
Weight:572g
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm
About The Author

Jonathan Leal

Jonathan Leal is Associate Professor of English and Affiliated Faculty in the Thornton School of Music 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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