Wild Tongue
A Borderlands Mixtape
$66.98
- Paperback
222 pages
- Release Date
27 October 2026
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: | 9781478039266 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1478039264 |
| Author: | Jonathan Leal |
| Publisher: | Duke University Press |
| Imprint: | Duke University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 222 |
| Release Date: | 27 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 304g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
“Wild Tongue: A Borderlands Mixtape is an exuberant, taste-scrambling, and joyful book. Through its deep cuts, distorted notes, genre leaps, and potent longings, Jonathan Leal reminds us of our power to read, listen, write, sing, and create our lives, and worlds, anew.”—José David Saldívar, author of Junot Díaz: On the Half-Life of Love
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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