PRELUDE Music, Culture, and Dialectical Interpretation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. PRELUDE Music, Culture, and Dialectical Interpretation 1
6. EXPOSITION Mexicans and Anglos in the Southwest: The Dialectic of Conflict 11
7. PART ONE ORIGINS
8. CHAPTER 1 Bailes and Fandangos: Music and Social Division in the Nineteenth Century 35
9. CHAPTER 2 The Dawning of a New Age: Musical Developments, 1910 to 1940 57
10. PART TWO THE MEXICAN AMERICAN ERA
11. CHAPTER 3 Orquesta's Social Base: The Mexican American Generation 93
12. CHAPTER 4 The Formative Years of Orquesta: The Texas-Mexican Connection 122
13. CHAPTER 5 The Los Angeles Tradition: Triumph of the Anti-Ranchero 166
14. PART THREE THE CHICANO ERA
15. CHAPTER 6 The Chicano Generation: Conflict, Contradiction, and Synthesis 203
16. CHAPTER 7 La Onda Chicana 227
17. CHAPTER 8 Ethnography: The Orquesta Tradition in Fresno 275
18. CODA Music in the Post-Chicano Era 303
19. Notes 313
20. Selected Discography 327
21. References Cited 329
22. Index 343