Mexican American Mojo: Popular Music, Dance, and Urban Culture in Los Angeles, 1935–1968
Anthony Macías, "Mexican American Mojo: Popular Music, Dance, and Urban Culture in Los Angeles, 1935–1968 "
English | ISBN: 0822343223 | 2008 | 408 pages | PDF | 24 MB
English | ISBN: 0822343223 | 2008 | 408 pages | PDF | 24 MB
Stretching from the years during the Second World War when young couples jitterbugged across the dance floor at the Zenda Ballroom, through the early 1950s when honking tenor saxophones could be heard at the Angelus Hall, to the Spanish-language cosmopolitanism of the late 1950s and 1960s, Mexican American Mojo is a lively account of Mexican American urban culture in wartime and postwar Los Angeles as seen through the evolution of dance styles, nightlife, and, above all, popular music. Revealing the links between a vibrant Chicano music culture and postwar social and geographic mobility, Anthony Macías shows how by participating in jazz, the zoot suit phenomenon, car culture, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and Latin music, Mexican Americans not only rejected second-class citizenship and demeaning stereotypes, but also transformed Los Angeles.
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