In 1960s East Los Angeles, La Estrella de la Cancion Romantica
interpreted boleros and other music from the collective memory of
Mexico. Though an untrained, local artist, her musical performance
was as trans-racial, trans-class, trans-generational, and
trans-national as the most celebrated artists of the music of
latinidad. That stage of her artistic career would be key when she
later helped deconstruct the machismo that framed the mariachi
tradition, as a founding member of the first all-female mariachi
group, Las Generalas. Mucho Corazon, a biography/autoethnography
written by the protagonist's daughter, relates the life- and
performing stages of Aurora Prado Pastrano, who against
overwhelming odds, followed her heart to become a bolerista,
songwriter, and the first professional woman guitarron player in
United States history. Seamless storytelling advances the
long-neglected history of Chicana grassroots artists. Framed by
allusions to the music popular during her Texas-Mexican American
childhood, her young adult life in Mexico, to her artistic rise in
East Los Angeles, the story vividly exemplifies how gendered
subjectivity infuses public performance of what the author coins
"cultural music." This is a resource on regional history and its
music of the 1940s-1970s. Written for anyone interested in women's
participation in the production and performance of mariachi music
in the United States, Mexican, Mexican American, Chicano, and
Latino music, and the cultural history of the Southwest, it is
especially valuable to ethnomusicology, cultural studies, women's
history, women's and gender studies, Latinx studies, Chicanx
studies, cultural anthropology, ethnology, and sociology, and
accessible to levels from high school to higher education
professionals.
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