Razabilly : : Transforming Sights, Sounds, and History in the Los Angeles Latina/o Rockabilly Scene / / Nicholas F. Centino.

Vocals tinged with pain and desperation. The deep thuds of an upright bass. Women with short bangs and men in cuffed jeans. These elements and others are the unmistakable signatures of rockabilly, a musical genre normally associated with white male musicians of the 1950s. But in Los Angeles today, r...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (200 p.) :; 5 b&w photos
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Terminology
  • Introduction
  • 1. From London to East Los: A Cultural History of the International Rockabilly Scene
  • 2. C’mon Baby, Let the Good Times Roll! Sites of Leisure and Memory in the Formation of the Chicana/o and Latina/o Rockabilly Scene of Greater Los Angeles
  • 3. Fashioning Razabilly Bodies: Embodied Style and Stance in the Chicana/o and Latina/o Rockabilly Scene of Greater Los Angeles
  • 4. Your Roots Are Showing: Tracing Genealogies and Building Cultural Memory through the Malleable Canon of the Greater Los Angeles Rockabilly Scene
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix: Research Sites
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index