The TexasMexican Conjunto: History of a Workingclass Music (CMAS Mexican American Monograph),Used

The TexasMexican Conjunto: History of a Workingclass Music (CMAS Mexican American Monograph),Used

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Around 1930, a highly popular and distinctive type of accordion music, commonly known as conjunto, emerged among TexasMexicans. Manuel Pea's The TexasMexican Con;unto is the first comprehensive study of this unique folk style. The author's exhaustive fieldwork and personal interviews with performers, disc jockeys, dance promoters, recording company owners, and conjunto music lovers provide the crucial connection between an analysis of the music itself and the richness of the culture from which it sprang.Using an approach that integrates musicological, historical, and sociological methods of analysis, Pea traces the development of the conjunto from its tentative beginnings to its preeminence as a fullblown style by the early 1960s. Biographical sketches of such major early performers as Narciso Martnez (El Huracn del Valle), Santiago Jimnez (El Flaco), Pedro Ayala, Valerio Longoria, Tony de la Rosa, and Paulino Bernal, along with detailed transcriptions of representative compositions, illustrate the various phases of conjunto evolution.Pea also probes the vital connection between conjunto's emergence as a powerful symbolic expression and the transformation of TexasMexican society from a preindustrial folk group to a community with increasingly divergent socioeconomic classes and ideologies. Of concern throughout the study is the interplay between ethnicity, class, and culture, and Pea's use of methods and theories from a variety of scholarly disciplines enables him to tell the story of conjunto in a manner both engaging and enlightening. This important study will be of interest to all students of Mexican American culture, ethnomusicology, and folklore.

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