The emergence of Texas-Mexican conjunto music, 1935-1960
Author : Manuel H. Peña
Publisher :
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 26,60 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Mexican Americans
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Author : Manuel H. Peña
Publisher :
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 26,60 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Mexican Americans
ISBN :
Author : Manuel H. Peña
Publisher :
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 38,47 MB
Release : 1997
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Author : Manuel Peña
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,4 MB
Release : 2010-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 0292787936
Around 1930, a highly popular and distinctive type of accordion music, commonly known as conjunto, emerged among Texas-Mexicans. Manuel Peña's The Texas-Mexican Con;unto is the first comprehensive study of this unique folk style. The author's exhaustive fieldwork and personal interviews with performers, disc jockeys, dance promoters, recording company owners, and conjunto music lovers provide the crucial connection between an analysis of the music itself and the richness of the culture from which it sprang. Using an approach that integrates musicological, historical, and sociological methods of analysis, Peña traces the development of the conjunto from its tentative beginnings to its preeminence as a full-blown style by the early 1960s. Biographical sketches of such major early performers as Narciso Martínez (El Huracán del Valle), Santiago Jiménez (El Flaco), Pedro Ayala, Valerio Longoria, Tony de la Rosa, and Paulino Bernal, along with detailed transcriptions of representative compositions, illustrate the various phases of conjunto evolution. Peña also probes the vital connection between conjunto's emergence as a powerful symbolic expression and the transformation of Texas-Mexican society from a pre-industrial folk group to a community with increasingly divergent socioeconomic classes and ideologies. Of concern throughout the study is the interplay between ethnicity, class, and culture, and Peña's use of methods and theories from a variety of scholarly disciplines enables him to tell the story of conjunto in a manner both engaging and enlightening. This important study will be of interest to all students of Mexican American culture, ethnomusicology, and folklore.
Author : Manuel G. Gonzales
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 34,75 MB
Release : 2009-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0253007771
Newly revised and updated, Mexicanos tells the rich and vibrant story of Mexicans in the United States. Emerging from the ruins of Aztec civilization and from centuries of Spanish contact with indigenous people, Mexican culture followed the Spanish colonial frontier northward and put its distinctive mark on what became the southwestern United States. Shaped by their Indian and Spanish ancestors, deeply influenced by Catholicism, and tempered by an often difficult existence, Mexicans continue to play an important role in U.S. society, even as the dominant Anglo culture strives to assimilate them. Thorough and balanced, Mexicanos makes a valuable contribution to the understanding of the Mexican population of the United States—a growing minority who are a vital presence in 21st-century America.
Author : Cathy Ragland
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 19,85 MB
Release : 2009-03-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 1592137482
The first history of the music that binds together Mexican immigrant communities.
Author : Manuel G. Gonzales
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 15,82 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Mexican Americans
ISBN : 9780253214003
A lively, original interpretive history of Mexicans in the United States.
Author : Guadalupe San Miguel
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 25,52 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9781585441884
"Readers interested not only in music, but also in ethnic studies and popular culture, will appreciate the broad spectrum covered in Tejano Proud: Tex-Mex Music in the Twentieth Century."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Paul Honigsheim
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 13,57 MB
Release : 2023-04-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 1000947165
Sociologists have always been fascinated with music. In one way or another they have encountered music as an important social force in its own right, as an accompaniment or byproduct of phenomena they studied (such as youth culture or the drug scene), or as a means for obtaining social compliance (as in religious ceremonies or in the military). This book goes one step toward remedying this situation by culling the existing literature for building blocks toward introducing sociological synthesis and by presenting the English version of the extensive writings on music and society by Paul Honigsheim.
Author : Manuel H. Peña
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 31,25 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780890968888
Pena traces the history of musica tejana from the fandangos and bailes of the nineteenth century through the cancion ranchera and the politically informed corrido to the most recent forms of Tejano music.
Author : Catherine Ann Ragland
Publisher :
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,59 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Conjunto music
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