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| Octavio Paz (photo by Manuel Álvarez Bravo) |
VS 185X S&P: México / Bibliography / Books on Music and Related Topics
PURCHASE THESE TWO BOOKS FOR CLASS: (copies at Ned's Books)
Toor, Frances. A Treasury of Mexican Folkways. New York: Bonanza Books 1985 (orig. 1947)
Paz, Octavio. The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings. New York: Grove Pres, 1985 (orig. 1961). (Read in either English or Spanish. The original is Octavio Paz, El laberinto de la soledad (con vuelta a El laberinto de la soldead). México, D.F.: FCE 2000, 1950 y 1981)
ON RESERVE:
Rivas, Yolanda Moreno. Historia de la música popular mexicana. México, D.F.: Oceano 2008 (orig. 1979)
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As discussed in class:
Mendoza, Vicente T. La Canción Mexicana: Ensayo de clasificación y antología. México, D.F.: FCE 2005 (orig. 1961)
Garrido, Juan S. Historia de la música popular en México. México, D.F.: Contemperaneos 1981
Loza, Steven. Barrio Rhythms: Mexican American Music in Los Angeles. Urbana, Illinois: Univ. of Illinois Press 1993
Normark, Don. Chavez Ravine, 1949: A Los Angeles Story. SF: Chronicle Books 1999. PHOTOGRAPHS
Cull, Nicholas and Davíd Carrasco, ed. Alambrista and the U.S.-Mexico Border. Albuquerque: UNM, 2004
Chew-Sánchez, Martha. Corridos in Migrant Memory. Albuquerque, NM: UNM 2006
Burr, Ramiro. Tejano and Regional Mexican Music. New York: Billboard Books, 1999
Rodriguez, Richard. Brown: The Last Discovery of America. New York: Viking 2002.
Everwine, Peter. Collecting the Animals (see the Aztec poems, his versions)
Cooder, Ry. Los Angeles Stories. SF: City Lights, 2011 (see "La vida es un sueño" and some of the other stories)
Serrano, Álvaro Ochoa, ed. De occidente es el mariache y de méxico. Guadalajara: Colegio de Michoacán 2001
Calleja, Julian. Los mejores corridos mexicanos. México D.F.: El Libro Español 1972
Quintanilla, José Ernesto Infante. Pedro Infante: El Ídolo inmortal. México, D.F.: Oceano, 2006 (questionable)
Good General References on Mexican music:
Bibliography in Yolanda Moreno Rivas: an excellent condensed bibliography; refer to it for additional sources
Juan S.Garrido, Historia de la música popular en México
Vicente T. Mendoza (numerous publications on la música mexicana, including the corrido)
Gerónimo Baqueiro Foster
Daniel Castaneda