ABSTRACT
Fandango Sin Fronteras as a sonic network grassroots movement stands pars pro toto for transnational migrations and movements of people and cultural practices that cannot be captured by the concepts of one-way emigration – immigration – acculturation processes. By looking at the Fandango Sin Fronteras movement as a representative of contemporary transnational grassroots politics, this chapter highlights a particular facet of contemporary global flows closely related to translocal community-building through participatory music. Fandango as a musical form traces its origins to Spanish-Arab culture and arrived to the Americas with the conquistadores. Fandango Sin Fronteras represents an expanding grassroots movement in the New Millennium and contributes to the making of a transnational civil society that transports the idea of border crossings rhythmically and geopolitically. Fandango Sin Fronteras embraces Chicana/o as well as Jarocha/o cultures; the people involved also transcend such binary group patterns.
