Author: John Letcher PattersonPublisher:
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Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Municipal Universities of the United States
Author: John Letcher PattersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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The Town
Author: The United States Catalog
Author: Ida M. LynnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 894
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Colleges and Universities in the United States Having Courses for the Study of Latin America
Author: Pan American Union. Division of EducationPublisher:
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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New Jersey's Multiple Municipal Madness
Author: Alan J. KarcherPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813525662
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Alan J. Karcher takes a critical look at how and why the boundary lines of New Jersey's 566 municipalities were drawn, pointing to the irrationality of these excessive divisions.
City Record
Author: Boston (Mass.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1750
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The United States Catalog
Author: Mary BurnhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1612
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The Annual Meeting - Association of Urban Universities
Author: Association of Urban UniversitiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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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.
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