Description
Book SynopsisThe 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.
Trade Review"There is no comparable study to this one. Pena is without question the outstanding student of Mexican-American music... He has written the definitive study of the orquesta." --Mario T. Garcia, Professor of History and Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Table of Contents
- 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
