Musica Tejana: The Cultural Economy of Artistic - download pdf or read online

By Manuel Pena

ISBN-10: 0890968772

ISBN-13: 9780890968772

ISBN-10: 0890968888

ISBN-13: 9780890968888

Texas-Mexican track, or música tejana, isn't one unmarried song yet numerous musical and musico-literary genres, ensembles, and their kinds, encompassing the corrido, canción, and what writer Manuel Peña calls the canción-corrido. Música tejana additionally contains significant local ensembles and their stylesthe conjunto and the Texas-Mexican model of the orquesta. a more moderen crop of synthesizer-driven ensembles and their kinds, identified because the mid-eighties as "Tejano," is one other consultant of música tejana.

Despite their range, those numerous ensembles, genres, and types percentage basic features: they're all homegrown, they usually all communicate after their very own model to basic social methods shaping Texas-Mexican society. As Peña persuasively argues, they characterize a remodeling cultural economic system and its results on Texas-Mexicans.

Peña strains the background of música tejana from the fandangos and bailes of the 19th century in the course of the canción ranchera and the politically expert corrido to the newest types of Tejano tune. initially, he argues, musicmaking used to be a functionality of "use-value"its symbolic energy associated with the social strategies of which it used to be an natural half. As música tejana was once swept into the industrial marketplace, it further a moment, much less culturally grounded dimension"exchange-value"whereby it came

under the culturally weakening impression of the economic industry. because the Forties, the tune has oscillated among the extremes of use- and exchange-value, although it hasn't ever misplaced its strength to talk to problems with id, distinction, and social change.

Música Tejana hence provides not just a close assessment of música tejana but in addition analyzes the social and fiscal implications of the song. The breadth, intensity, and readability with which Peña has taken care of this topic make this a most valuable textual content for these drawn to ethnomusicology, folklore, ethnic experiences, and Mexican American culture.

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