{"product_id":"the-mexican-american-orquesta-9780292765870","title":"The Mexican American Orquesta","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Prelude: Music, Culture, and Dialectical Interpretation \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Exposition: Mexicans and Anglos in the Southwest: The Dialectic of Conflict \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part One: Origins \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 1. Bailes and Fandangos: Music and Social Division in the Nineteenth Century \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 2. The Dawning of a New Age: Musical Developments, 1910 to 1940 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part Two: The Mexican American Era \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 3. Orquesta's Social Base: The Mexican American Generation \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 4. The Formative Years of Orquesta: The Texas-Mexican Connection \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 5. The Los Angeles Tradition: Triumph of the Anti-Ranchero \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part Three: The Chicano Era \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 6. The Chicano Generation: Conflict, Contradiction, and Synthesis \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 7. La Onda Chicana \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 8. Ethnography: The Orquesta Tradition in Fresno \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Coda: Music in the Post-Chicano Era \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Notes \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Selected Discography \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e References Cited \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400879907159,"sku":"9780292765870","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780292765870.jpg?v=1730471826","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-mexican-american-orquesta-9780292765870","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}