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The Texas-Mexican conjunto : history of a working-class music / Manuel H. Peña.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks ML3481.P46 1985
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peña, Manuel H., 1942- author.
- Series:
- Mexican American monographs ; no. 9.
- Mexican American monographs ; no. 9
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conjunto music--Texas--History and criticism.
- Conjunto music.
- Mexican Americans--Texas--Music--History and criticism.
- Mexican Americans.
- Folk dance music--Texas--History and criticism.
- Folk dance music.
- Folk dance music--Mexico--History and criticism.
- Música popular (Canciones, etc.)--Texas, EE. UU--Historia y crítica.
- Música popular (Canciones, etc.)--México--Historia y crítica.
- Mexico.
- Texas.
- Local Subjects:
- Música popular (Canciones, etc.)--Texas, EE. UU--Historia y crítica.
- Música popular (Canciones, etc.)--México--Historia y crítica.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 218 pages [6] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, music ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Austin : University of Texas Press, [1985]
- Summary:
- "This book does a magnificent job of tracing the history of conjunto music and musicians, and does much more. ... Peña presents a highly convincing explanation for conjunto music as an act of working-class self-affirmation and opposition to the upwardly aspirant middle class with its self-consciously Americanized orquesta music. ... Fascinating and well-researched."--American Anthropologist.
- Contents:
- Origins : Texas-Mexican music prior to 1930
- Los músicos de ayer : the formative years
- La nueva generación : stylistic consolidation (1948-1960)
- Post-1960 conjunto : the limits of a tradition
- La gente pobre : the social base of conjunto music
- Social and symbolic dimensions of conjunto : from ascendancy to decline.
- Notes:
- Discography: page 213.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-212) and index.
- British Library not licensed to copy 0.
- Local Notes:
- The Balch Institute Library and Archives.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Peña, Manuel H., 1942- Texas-Mexican conjunto.
- ISBN:
- 0292780680
- 9780292780682
- 029278080X
- 9780292780804
- OCLC:
- 11550341
- Online:
- Publisher description
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