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The Texas-Mexican conjunto : history of a working-class music /
"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-cons...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
[1985]
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| Series: | Mexican American monographs ;
no. 9. |
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| Online Access: | Table of contents Table of contents Publisher description |
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: |
xi, 218 pages [6] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, music ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: |
Discography: page 213. Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-212) and index. |
| ISBN: |
0292780680 9780292780682 029278080X 9780292780804 |