The Mexican American Orquesta
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-0-292-76587-0 (ISBN)
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 Manuel PeÑa calls the "dialectic of conflict." Grounded in ethnic and class conflict, this dialectic compels the orquesta and its upwardly mobile advocates to waver between acculturation and ethnic resistance. The musical result: a complex mesh of cultural elements-Mexican and American, working- and middle-class, traditional and contemporary.
In this book, Manuel PeÑa traces the evolution of the orquesta in the Southwest from its beginnings in the nineteenth century through its pinnacle in the 1970s and its decline since the 1980s. Drawing on fifteen years of field research, he embeds the development of the orquesta within a historical-materialist matrix to achieve the optimal balance between description and interpretation. Rich in ethnographic detail and boldly analytical, his book is the first in-depth study of this important but neglected field of artistic culture.
Manuel PeÑa (1942–2019) was an anthropologist of music and folklore. He taught anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin and music at California State University, Fresno.
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
| Verlagsort | Austin, TX |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-292-76587-8 / 0292765878 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-292-76587-0 / 9780292765870 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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