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Book SynopsisA study of the creation of jazz, swing, and R & B music within the multicultural, multiethnic terrain of Los Angeles
Trade Review“
Mexican American Mojo is a timely and engaging work that thoroughly demonstrates the development of popular Mexican American culture in mid-twentieth-century Los Angeles. Anthony Macías has written an illuminating and remarkable study that belongs in the library of anyone interested in Mexican American culture.”—
Raul A. Fernandez, author of
From Afro-Cuban Rhythms to Latin Jazz“I am especially excited by the interviews Anthony Macías conducted, which make central perspectives long missing from scholarship on jazz, swing, and R & B. Macías’s method of looking at Los Angeles’s social geography of race and ethnicity ‘through a prism of popular music’ will be of great interest to those interested in the histories of popular music, Mexican America, and Los Angeles.”—
Sherrie Tucker, author of
Swing Shift: “All-Girl” Bands of the 1940sTable of ContentsIllustrations xi
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction. The Mexican American Generation, Music, and Los Angeles 1
1. Mojo in Motion: The Swing Era 12
2. The Drape Shape: Intercultural Style Politics 62
3. Boogie Woogie Breakthrough: The Rhythm and Blues Era 118
4. Come On, Let's Go: The Rock and Roll Era 173
5. Con Sabor Latino: Latin Jazz, the Mambo, and Latin Holidays 229
Conclusion. Alternate Takes and Political Generations 281
Notes 291
Bibliography 347
Index 369
