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Listening to Rosita - The Business of Tejana Music and Culture, 1930-1955 (Hardcover)
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Listening to Rosita - The Business of Tejana Music and Culture, 1930-1955 (Hardcover)
Series: Race and Culture in the American West Series
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Everybody in the bar had to drop a quarter in the jukebox or be
shamed by ""Momo"" Villarreal. It wasn't about the money, Mary Ann
Villarreal's grandmother insisted. It was about the music - more
songs for all the patrons of the Pecan Lounge in Tivoli, Texas. But
for Mary Ann, whose schoolbooks those quarters bought, the money
didn't hurt. When as an adult Villarreal began to wonder how the
few recordings of women singers made their way into that jukebox,
questions about the money seemed inseparable from those about the
music. In Listening to Rosita, Villarreal seeks answers by pursuing
the story of a small group of Tejana singers and entrepreneurs in
Corpus Christi, Houston, and San Antonio - the ""Texas Triangle"" -
during the mid-twentieth century. Ultimately she recovers a social
world and cultural landscape in central south Texas where Mexican
American women negotiated the shifting boundaries of race and
economics to assert a public presence. Drawing on oral history,
interviews, and insights from ethnic and gender studies, Listening
to Rosita provides a counternarrative to previous research on la
musica tejana, which has focused almost solely on musicians or
musical genres. Villarreal instead chronicles women's roles and
contributions to the music industry. In spotlighting the sixty-year
singing career of San Antonian Rosita Fernandez, the author pulls
the curtain back on all the women whose names and stories have been
glaringly absent from the ethnic and economic history of Tejana
music and culture. In this oral history of the Tejana cantantes who
performed and owned businesses in the Texas Triangle, Listening to
Rosita shows how ethnic Mexican entrepreneurs developed a unique
identity in striving for success in a society that demeaned and
segregated them. In telling their story, this book supplies a
critical chapter long missing from the history of the West.
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