Mexican American Orquesta, The
Music, Culture, and the Dialectic of Conflict
- Author: Pena, Manuel
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$43.00Contents
- 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