The Mexican American Orquesta : : Music, Culture, and the Dialectic of Conflict / / Manuel Peña.
The Mexican American orquesta is neither a Mexican nor an American music. Relying on both the Mexican orquesta and the American dance band for repertorial and stylistic cues, it forges a synthesis of the two. The ensemble emerges historically as a powerful artistic vehicle for the expression of what...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- PRELUDE Music, Culture, and Dialectical Interpretation
- EXPOSITION Mexicans and Anglos in the Southwest: The Dialectic of Conflict
- PART ONE ORIGINS
- CHAPTER 1 Bailes and Fandangos: Music and Social Division in the Nineteenth Century
- CHAPTER 2 The Dawning of a New Age: Musical Developments, 1910 to 1940
- PART TWO THE MEXICAN AMERICAN ERA
- CHAPTER 3 Orquesta's Social Base: The Mexican American Generation
- CHAPTER 4 The Formative Years of Orquesta: The Texas-Mexican Connection
- CHAPTER 5 The Los Angeles Tradition: Triumph of the Anti-Ranchero
- PART THREE THE CHICANO ERA
- CHAPTER 6 The Chicano Generation: Conflict, Contradiction, and Synthesis
- CHAPTER 7 La Onda Chicana
- CHAPTER 8 Ethnography: The Orquesta Tradition in Fresno
- CODA Music in the Post-Chicano Era
- Notes
- Selected Discography
- References Cited
- Index