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Lydia Mendoza's life in music : norteño tejano legacies = La historia de Lydia Mendoza / Yolanda Broyles-González.
| Author/creator | Broyles-González, Yolanda, 1949- |
| Format | Musical Sound Recording |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001. |
| Description | xvi, 235 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Parallel title | Historia de Lydia Mendoza |
| Variant title | Norteño tejano legacies |
| Series | American musicspheres American musicspheres. ^A465365 |
| Contents | Let's weave that story by telling it. When I arrived in San Antonio, there were no women singers ; We toiled and toiled ; And that's how I began to learn my songs ; In San Antonio they never paid me for my work ; My career was not cut off by my husbands (the Mendoza family) ; What's upon us is... modern times (San Antonio in the 1920s and now) ; Lydia Mendoza, the teacher ; That has been my life and long career (different types of performances, ambiences, and audiences) ; That's the artistry: the art of feeling ; Life... that's what has taught me (art across the generations of women) ; Persevere! Don't hold back, don't give up! (surrender to music: a whole lifetime) ; Let the women singers emerge! ; I really have a lot of faith in the spirits ; My mother would teach us these things ; There were many theaters in those years ; We northerners: nosotros los nortenos ; The two great women of Texas ; What more can I ask of life? -- Background and analysis. Participation in this historia ; Lydia Mendoza and the social powers of music ; Autonomous domains of self-power ; Lydia Mendoza's norteno performance repertoire: performance tradition and the creation of social meaning ; Changing borderlands musical languages ; Lydia Mendoza and the cancion ranchera ; Gendered historia: performing indigenous women's working-class history (a way of talking) ; Making historia/Making history ; The web of oral tradition ; Negotiating the space and movement between orality and print culture. |
| Abstract | Lydia Mendoza began her legendary musical career as a child in the 1920s, singing for pennies and nickels on the streets of downtown San Antonio. She lived most of her adult life in Houston, Texas, where she was born. The life story of this Chicana icon encompasses a 60-year singing career that began with the dawn of the recording industry in the 1920s and continued well into the 1980s, ceasing only after she suffered a devastating stroke. Her status as a working-class idol continues to this day, making her one of the most prominent and long-standing performers in the history of the recording industry and a champion of Chicana/o music. This bilingual edition presents Lydia Mendoza's historia in an interview between the artist and the author: first is the English translation, then the Spanish original, as told by Mendoza herself. Broyles-Gonzalez concludes the volume with an extended essay on the significance of Mendoza's career and her place in Tejana music and Chicana studies. |
| Local note | Joyner-MUSIC LIBRARY BOOK ACCOMPANIED BY SOUND RECORDING CD-5602. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-224) and index. |
| Language | English and Spanish. |
| LCCN | 00038534 |
| ISBN | 0195127064 (alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML420.M3768 B76 2001 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |