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 Macias 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.
Macias conducted numerous interviews for "Mexican American
Mojo," and the voices of little-known artists and fans fill its
pages. In addition, more famous musicians such as Ritchie Valens
and Lalo Guerrero are considered anew in relation to their
contemporaries and the city. Macias examines language, fashion, and
subcultures to trace the history of hip and cool in Los Angeles as
well as the Chicano influence on urban culture. He argues that a
grass-roots "multicultural urban civility" that challenged the
attempted containment of Mexican Americans and African Americans
emerged in the neighborhoods, schools, nightclubs, dance halls, and
auditoriums of mid-twentieth-century Los Angeles. So take a little
trip with Macias, via streetcar or freeway, to a time when Los
Angeles had advanced public high school music programs, segregated
musicians' union locals, a highbrow municipal Bureau of Music,
independent R & B labels, and robust rock and roll and Latin
music scenes.
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