Mexican American Mojo: Popular Music, Dance, and Urban Culture in Los Angeles, 1935–1968 9780822389385

Making Music in Los Angeles: Transforming the Popular 9780520933835

In this fascinating social history of music in Los Angeles from the 1880s to 1940, Catherine Parsons Smith ventures into

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Becoming Mexican American: ethnicity, culture and identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 9780195069907, 9780199762231, 9780195096484

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Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles 9780520939714

Los Angeles pulsed with economic vitality and demographic growth in the decades following World War II. This vividly det

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Five Generations of a Mexican American Family in Los Angeles : The Fuentes Story 9780742580169, 9780742538825

Despite their citizenship and English monolingualism, Mexican Americans have long been known to remain largely working c

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Wild Tongues: Transnational Mexican Popular Culture 9780292739413

Tracing the configuration of the slapstick, destitute Peladita/Peladito and the Pachuca/Pachuco (depicted in flashy zoot

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Food, Health, and Culture in Latino Los Angeles 9781442251304, 9781442251298

Contemporary Los Angeles can increasingly be considered a part of Latin America. Only 200 miles from the border with Mex

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Cassette Culture: Popular Music and Technology in North India 0226504018

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Popular Music and National Culture in Israel 9780520936881

A unique Israeli national culture—indeed, the very nature of "Israeliness"—remains a matter of debate, a strug

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The Mexican American Orquesta: Music, Culture, and the Dialectic of Conflict 9780292754942

The Mexican American orquesta is neither a Mexican nor an American music. Relying on both the Mexican orquesta and the A

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In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills: Latino Suburbanization in Postwar Los Angeles 9780813583181

Residential and industrial sprawl changed more than the political landscape of postwar Los Angeles. It expanded the empl

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