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Format:

Book

Author:

Peña, Manuel H., 1942- author.

Title:

The Texas-Mexican conjunto : history of a working-class music / Manuel H. Peña.

Publisher, Date:

Austin : University of Texas Press, [1985]

Description:

xi, 218 pages [6] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, music ; 24 cm

Summary:

"This book does a magnificent job of tracing the history of conjunto music and musicians, and does much more. ... Peña 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-consciously Americanized orquesta music. ... Fascinating and well-researched."--American Anthropologist.

Series:

Mexican American monographs ; no. 9

Mexican American monographs ; no. 9.

Subjects:

Conjunto music -- Texas -- History and criticism.

Mexican Americans -- Texas -- Music -- History and criticism.

Folk dance music -- Texas -- History and criticism.

Folk dance music -- Mexico -- History and criticism.

Genre:

Music.

Notes:

Discography: page 213.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-212) and index.

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.

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Publisher description

LCCN:

84027127

ISBN:

0292780680

9780292780682

029278080X

9780292780804

0292780680

029278080X (pbk.)

Other Number:

11550341

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

31602

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Call Number:

781.726872 Pena