A dancer and a musician, this couple has been a part of the history of Mexican traditional musics in the LA area for more than half a century! We interview them in a double episode.
SUMMARY OF RESEARCH SOURCES
The great majority of sources about twentieth-century Mexican music in Los Angeles are in English. In order not to present two very different-sized bibliographies, we have combined them here into a single document.
Mariachi & Son jarocho in LA & at UCLAAlexandro Hernández, “The Son Jarocho and Fandango Amidst Struggle and Social Movements:Migratory Transformation and Reinterpretation of the Son Jarocho in La Nueva España, México, and the United States. “ PhD Dissertation, UCLA. 2014
Loza, Steven. Barrio Rhythm: Mexican American Music in Los Angeles. Vol. 517. University of Illinois Press, 1993.
----------------- "From Veracruz to Los Angeles: The Reinterpretation of the" Son Jarocho"." Latin American Music Review/Revista de Música Latinoamericana 13.2 (1992): 179-194.
Maureen Russell, “Highlights from the Ethnomusicology Archive: Music of Mexico Ensemble.” Nov. 2012 https://ethnomusicologyreview.ucla.edu/content/highlights-ethnomusicology-archive-music-mexico-ensemble
----------------------“Special Guest: Dr. Robert Saxe and the Music of Mexico Ensemble, 1964” -- Ethnomusicology Review
https://ethnomusicologyreview.ucla.edu/content/special-guest-dr-robert-saxe-and-music-mexico-ensemble-1964
Salazar, Lauryn Camille. "From Fiesta to Festival: Mariachi Music in California and the Southwestern United States." PhD diss., UCLA, 2011.
https://www.proquest.com/docview/919079833?accountid=14512
El Ballet Folklórico“Emilio Pulido Interview, 1999) -- USC Digital Library
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/digital/collection/p15799coll105/id/1589/rec/1
“A History of Mexican Folklórico in Southern California” -- The Dance History Project of Southern California
http://www.dancehistoryproject.org/articles/culture-and-context/world-arts-culture-context/a-history-of-mexican-folorico-in-southern-california/
“Grupo Folklorico de UCLA” -- gfdeUCLA.com
https://www.gfdeucla.com
“The Role of Folklorico and Danzantes Unidos in the Chican@ Movement” -- Eve Marie Delfin
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6mw0n3x9
El MestizajeA great deal has been written (and debated) around this theme; even a representative bibliography is not within the scope of this document. We offer here just a couple of classic sources, in which the idea of Mexican national identity as a “mixture” was developed.
José Vasconcelos. La Raza Cósmica. Misión de la raza iberoamericana. Notas de viajes a la América del Sur. (1925) Madrid, Spain : Aguilar, 1966.
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