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Author:

Villarreal, Mary Ann, 1971- author.

Title:

Listening to Rosita : the business of Tejana music and culture, 1930-1955 / Mary Ann Villarreal.

Publisher:

University of Oklahoma Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xxxvi, 177 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Fernandez, Rosita,--1918-2006.
Tejano musicians--Texas.
Women musicians--Texas.
Businesswomen--Texas.
Mexican Americans--Corpus Christi--Corpus Christi--Social conditions--20th century.
Mexican Americans--Houston--Houston--Social conditions--20th century.
Mexican Americans--San Antonio--San Antonio--Social conditions--20th century.
Tejano music--History and criticism.
Tejano music.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Tejano music.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Business first : becoming San Antonio's Rose -- A "proper, fitting or moral occupation" for women : gendering the space of business -- The business of culture : selling politics and cultural goods -- Figuring space : the Texas Triangle -- Mapping communities : race, gender, and place.

Series:

Race and culture in the American West ; volume 9.

ISBN:

0806148527
9780806148526

OCLC:

(OCoLC)908192594

LCCN:

2015016354

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)