The Texas-Mexican conjunto : history of a working-class music /
"This book does a magnificent job of tracing the history of conjunto music and musicians, and does much more. . . . Pena 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-con...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
1985
Austin : [1985], ©1985 Austin : c1985 Austin : ©1985 Austin : c1985 Austin : [1985] |
Series: | Mexican American monographs ;
no. 9 Mexican American monographs no. 9 Mexican American monographs ; no. 9 Mexican American monographs no. 9 |
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Table of 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
- 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