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Listening to Rosita : the business of Tejana music and culture, 1930-1955 / Mary Ann Villarreal.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Villarreal, Mary Ann, 1971- author.
- Series:
- Race and culture in the American West ; v. 9.
- Race and culture in the American west ; v. 9
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fernandez, Rosita, 1918-2006.
- Fernandez, Rosita.
- Tejano musicians--Texas.
- Tejano musicians.
- Women musicians--Texas.
- Women musicians.
- Businesswomen--Texas.
- Businesswomen.
- Mexican Americans--Texas--Corpus Christi--Social conditions--20th century.
- Mexican Americans.
- Mexican Americans--Texas--Houston--Social conditions--20th century.
- Mexican Americans--Texas--San Antonio--Social conditions--20th century.
- Tejano music--History and criticism.
- Tejano music.
- Mexican Americans--Social conditions.
- Texas.
- Texas--Corpus Christi.
- Texas--Houston.
- Texas--San Antonio.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Tejano music
- Tejano music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2015]
- Summary:
- In Listening to Rosita, Villarreal seeks answers by pursuing the story of a small group of Tejana singers and entrepreneurs in Corpus Christi, Houston, and San Antonio-the "Texas Triangle"--During the mid-twentieth century. Ultimately she recovers a social world and cultural landscape in central south Texas where Mexican American women negotiated the shifting boundaries of race and economics to assert a public presence.
- Contents:
- Business first : becoming San Antonio's Rose
- A "proper, fitting or moral occupation" for women : gendering the space of business
- The business of culture : selling politics and cultural goods
- Figuring space : the Texas Triangle
- Mapping communities : race, gender, and place.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Villarreal, Mary Ann, 1971- Listening to Rosita.
- ISBN:
- 9780806153223
- 0806153229
- OCLC:
- 926049096
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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