Mexico in verse : a history of music, rhyme, and power / edited by Stephen Neufeld and Michael Matthews ; foreword by William H. Beezley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Neufeld, Stephen, editor.

Matthews, Michael, 1978- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and history--Mexico.

Literature and history.

Music and history--Mexico.

Music and history.

Mexican literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Mexican literature.

Mexican literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Mexico.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

viii, 358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2015.

Summary:

"This edited volume examines the history of modern Mexico through poetry and music. It seeks to examine the cultural venues where ordinary people articulated their understandings of the social, political, and economic change they witnessed taking place during moments of tremendous upheaval, such as the U.S.-Mexican War, the Porfiriato, the Mexican Revolution, among others"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Sister at war : Mexican women's poetry and the U.S.-Mexican War / Christopher Conway

The sly mockeries of military men : corridos and poetry as critical voice for the Porfirian army / Stephen Neufeld

The track from beyond the grave : challenges to Porfirian policymaking in popular verse / Michael Matthews

"I'm going to write you a letter" : coplas, love letters and courtship literacy / William French

Singing for Cristo Rey : masculinity, piety, and dissent in Mexico's Cristero Rebellion / Stephen J.C. Andes

El niño proletario : Jesús Sansón Flores and the New Revolutionary Redeemer, 1935-1938 / Elena Jackson Albarrán

"That mariachi band and that tequila ... " : modernity, identity and cultural politics in alcohol songs of the Mexican golden age cinema / Áurea Toxqui

Let us weep among the dust : recycled poems of 1968 and operas of earthquake / Amanda Ledwon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816531325

0816531323

OCLC:

894747946