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10%OFFAnthony Macías - Mexican American Mojo: Popular Music, Dance, and Urban Culture in Los Angeles, 1935–1968 - 9780822343226 - V9780822343226
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Mexican American Mojo: Popular Music, Dance, and Urban Culture in Los Angeles, 1935–1968

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Description for Mexican American Mojo: Popular Music, Dance, and Urban Culture in Los Angeles, 1935–1968 Paperback. A study of the creation of jazz, swing, and R & B music within the multicultural, multiethnic terrain of Los Angeles Series: Refiguring American Music. Num Pages: 408 pages, 42 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; ASD; AVG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 596.
Stretching from the years during the Second World War when young couples jitterbugged across the dance floor at the Zenda Ballroom, through the early 1950s when honking tenor saxophones could be heard at the Angelus Hall, to the Spanish-language cosmopolitanism of the late 1950s and 1960s, Mexican American Mojo is a lively account of Mexican American urban culture in wartime and postwar Los Angeles as seen through the evolution of dance styles, nightlife, and, above all, popular music. Revealing the links between a vibrant Chicano music culture and postwar social and geographic mobility, Anthony Macías shows how by participating in ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
Series
Refiguring American Music
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822343226
SKU
V9780822343226
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About Anthony Macías
Anthony Macías is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside.

Reviews for Mexican American Mojo: Popular Music, Dance, and Urban Culture in Los Angeles, 1935–1968
“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 ... Read more

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