The local dimension of the cultural industry of music

This paper is about the reconstruction of some of the production’s global processes in the cultural industry of music in its local dimensions, through a report of a family story of musicians and their band from a small village in Central-West Mexico. To understand the characteristics and properties of our goal, we use the anthroponomic perspective proposed by Bertaux as a conceptual alternative focusing the “other” production, that is not only confined to matters of economics, and it documents a different process, sometimes a complementary one, in which are produced minds and bodies that are apt for certain types of activity in a time and a given social space. As a result, we point out that, at the same time in which the macro social structures produced three generations of “apt” musicians, was being born and progressively growing stronger a complex cultural industry in Mexico that testified the relative fine tuning of a local and an industrial-cultural temporalities.