Mucho Coraz

ISBN-13: 9781433190568 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Alicia Chavira-Prado

Opis

This book is a biography/autoethnography written by the protagonists' 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 guitarrón player in United States history.

Recenzje

"This inspiring autoethnographic-biography pays homage to Aurora Prado Pastrano's life as a pioneer female mariachi, guitarronera, and mother. Chavira-Prado's work is necessary and relevant as it archives the contributions of those women in mariachi whose work and stories have been too often relegated to back-stage or forgotten in Chicana/x/o music history. This is an empowering interdisciplinary study of the Mexican-American diaspora through the lens of the female mariachi, her struggles, her victories, and the cultural contexts that formed the artist-the mariachi femenil."-Rachel Yvonne Cruz, Professor of Mexican American Studies/Music Specialist, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Author of The Art of Mariachi: A Curriculum Guide

Spis treści

List of Photos - Acknowledgments - Introduction: Mucho Corazón - Sin un Amor: Life and Music in El Chamizal - Llorarás, Llorarás: Life and Music in Juárez - Mexican Education, the Golden Age of Cinema, and National Identity - Naa, Na, Na, Na, Naa: The Chicano Movement and the Birth of the East Side Sound - La Estrella de la Canción Romántica - Volver, Volver: Mariachi Music and Performance - My Participation in Mariachi Las Generalas: En Primera Voz - Mariachi Las Generalas - Epilogue: Fallaste Corazón: Legacies, Closures, and Failings of the Heart - Appendix A: Misa Panamericana/ Order of Mass as Played by Mariachi Las Generalas - Appendix B: Aurora Prado Pastrano's Collection of Old Popular Song Titles - Appendix C: Selected Song Lyrics - Index.

O autorze

Alicia Chavira-Prado (Ph.D., UCLA) is a former professor of cultural anthropology and Latino/a studies and university diversity and inclusion administrator. Her institutions included University of Houston, De Paul University, and Ohio University. She is the editor of The Feminist Alliance Project in Appalachia: Minoritized Experiences of Women Faculty and Administrators (Peter Lang, 2018).