Mexican American Orquesta, The

Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Prelude: Music, Culture, and Dialectical Interpretation
• Exposition: Mexicans and Anglos in the Southwest: The Dialectic of Conflict
• Part One: Origins
• Chapter 1. Bailes and Fandangos: Music and Social Division in the Nineteenth Century
• Chapter 2. The Dawning of a New Age: Musical Developments, 1910 to 1940
• Part Two: The Mexican American Era
• Chapter 3. Orquesta's Social Base: The Mexican American Generation
• Chapter 4. The Formative Years of Orquesta: The Texas-Mexican Connection
• Chapter 5. The Los Angeles Tradition: Triumph of the Anti-Ranchero
• Part Three: The Chicano Era
• Chapter 6. The Chicano Generation: Conflict, Contradiction, and Synthesis
• Chapter 7. La Onda Chicana
• Chapter 8. Ethnography: The Orquesta Tradition in Fresno
• Coda: Music in the Post-Chicano Era
• Notes
• Selected Discography
• References Cited
• Index