Author: United States. Dept. of AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: United States. Dept. of AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
Book Description
Listening to Rosita
Author: Mary Ann VillarrealPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806153210
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Everybody in the bar had to drop a quarter in the jukebox or be shamed by “Momo” Villarreal. It wasn’t about the money, Mary Ann Villarreal’s grandmother insisted. It was about the music—more songs for all the patrons of the Pecan Lounge in Tivoli, Texas. But for Mary Ann, whose schoolbooks those quarters bought, the money didn’t hurt. When as an adult Villarreal began to wonder how the few recordings of women singers made their way into that jukebox, questions about the money seemed inseparable from those about the music. In Listening to Rosita, Villarreal seeks answers by pursuing the story of a small group of Tejana singers and entrepreneurs in Corpus Christi, Houston, and San Antonio—the “Texas Triangle”—during the mid-twentieth century. Ultimately she recovers a social world and cultural landscape in central south Texas where Mexican American women negotiated the shifting boundaries of race and economics to assert a public presence. Drawing on oral history, interviews, and insights from ethnic and gender studies, Listening to Rosita provides a counternarrative to previous research on la música tejana, which has focused almost solely on musicians or musical genres. Villarreal instead chronicles women’s roles and contributions to the music industry. In spotlighting the sixty-year singing career of San Antonian Rosita Fernández, the author pulls the curtain back on all the women whose names and stories have been glaringly absent from the ethnic and economic history of Tejana music and culture. In this oral history of the Tejana cantantes who performed and owned businesses in the Texas Triangle, Listening to Rosita shows how ethnic Mexican entrepreneurs developed a unique identity in striving for success in a society that demeaned and segregated them. In telling their story, this book supplies a critical chapter long missing from the history of the West.
Bulletin of the University of Utah
Author: Bulletin
Author: Abolfazl JameossanaiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: Geological Survey Bulletin
Author: Bulletin of the University of Utah
Author: Bulletin of the Utah Engineering Experiment Station
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Includes proceedings of several conferences.
Bulletin
Author: United States. Office of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Author: