Sounds of Crossing: Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño by Alex E. Chávez

FandangObon: Amplification, counter‐publics, and fugitive spaces of belonging in Los Angeles

“…In festive celebrations like FandangObon, however, participants can make “a sound that rattles the trees and shakes the ground,” to borrow Sunni Patterson's (2010, 293) felicitous phrase. Like Huapango Arribeño celebrations, African American brass band parades, and taiko drumming and dancing, FandangObon strategically stages scenes that call new communities into being through loud and proud performance (Chavez, 2017; Sakakeeny, 2013; Wong, 2019). The seemingly small practice of FandangObon holds large implications for the lived experiences of urban life.…”