Bøger af Manuel Pena

An autobiographical ethnography that consists of twenty-six life episodes that chronicle Manuel Pe+/-a's transformative journey from an impoverished migrant worker to a career in academia. Pe+/-a reflects on a wide range of issues arising from the historically-marginalized condition of Mexicans and other Latinos in the United States.

The evolution of the orquesta in the Southwest from its beginnings in the nineteenth century through its pinnacle in the 1970s and its decline since the 1980s.

A history of conjunto music and musicians.

Traces the history of musica tejana from the fandangos and bailes of the nineteenth century through the cancion ranchera and the politically informed.

Examines eleven myths that form part of the storehouse of present-day American mythologies, elucidating the nature of contemporary myths by investigating their ideological sub-terrain. This book sheds light on the socio-economic, gendered, national and racial interests that lie behind myth-making.