Tejano Conjunto Chapter Summary

Capitalism’s organization of space and time from the assembly lines of Ford automobiles, and the regulation of time were designed to designed to standardize and intensify the pace of modern production. As capitalism organized production with the arrangement of space and measurement of time, Texas’s commercial farming production along with the termination of slave labor was critical to the U.S. entry to world markets. It is important to note that capitalist development is linked to expansionism, that is, some form of globalization occurs in its various epochs. According to William I. Robinson, the feature of capitalist global expansion accompanies each epoch, from “the first epoch [that] ran from the symbolic dates of 1492, the second to the late nineteenth century, and the third into the early 1970s” and “today’s fourth epoch.” While Robinson focuses on production relations and the role of the state in each epoch, my argument here about Tejano conjunto is that él taquachito emerges as a modernist expression under
Understanding the fragmenting effect of late capitalism, he notes the lament of postmodern critics that depicts “a world in which the human subject is longer just alienated, thus presuming some lost agency, and purpose.” As Limón tackles late capitalism’s impact to render only surface culture, he notes how the human subject is decentered and fragmented, where the subject is “incapable of conceiving mission, agency, purpose. As scholars on postmodernism are concerned with the politics of social practice, Limón interrogates Jameson’s definition of postmodernity as “largely a class confined cultural movement of the elite arts, intellectual, and now, upper class architecture.” In response, Limón turns to the subaltern practices of the Chicano