Texas A&M University Press, 4/1/Date: 1999 12:00:01 AM. paperback. Good. 0.6693 in x 9.0157 in x 5.9055 in. Used books may not include access codes or one time use codes. Proven Seller with Excellent Customer Service. Choose expedited shipping and get it FAST. 1999. Texas A&M University Press ISBN 0890968888 9780890968888 [US]

TAMU Press, Date: 1999-04-01. Paperback. Good. 1999. TAMU Press ISBN 0890968888 9780890968888 [US]

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Paperback / softback. New. Traces the history of musica tejana from the fandangos and bailes of the nineteenth century through the cancion ranchera and the politically informed. ISBN 0890968888 9780890968888 [GB]

ISBN10: 0890968888, ISBN13: 9780890968888, [publisher: Texas A&M University Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Texas-Mexican music, or música tejana, is not one single music but several musical and musico-literary genres, ensembles, and their styles, encompassing the corrido, canción, and what author Manuel Peña calls the canción-corrido. Música tejana also includes two major regional ensembles and their styles-the conjunto and the Texas-Mexican version of the orquesta. A more recent crop of synthesizer-driven ensembles and their styles, known since the mid-eighties as 'Tejano,' is another representative of música tejana.Despite their diversity, these various ensembles, genres, and styles share two fundamental characteristics: they are all homegrown, and they all speak after their own fashion to fundamental social processes shaping Texas-Mexican society. As Peña persuasively argues, they represent a transforming cultural economy and its effects on Texas-Mexicans.Peña traces the history of música tejana from the fandangos and bailes of the nineteenth century through the canción ranchera and the politically informed corrido to the most recent forms of Tejano music. In the beginning, he argues, musicmaking was a function of 'use-value'-its symbolic power linked to the social processes of which it was an organic part. As música tejana was swept into the commercial market, it added a second, ...
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Texas A&M University Press, Date: 1999-04-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1999. Texas A&M University Press ISBN 0890968888 9780890968888 [US]