{"product_id":"listening-to-rosita-the-business-of-tejana-music-and-culture-1930-1955-volume-9-paperback","title":"Listening to Rosita: The Business of Tejana Music and Culture, 1930-1955 Volume 9 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMary Ann Villarreal\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Everybody in the bar had to drop a quarter in the jukebox or be shamed by \"Momo\" Villarreal. It wasn't about the money, Mary Ann Villarreal's grandmother insisted. It was about the music--more songs for all the patrons of the Pecan Lounge in Tivoli, Texas. But for Mary Ann, whose schoolbooks those quarters bought, the money didn't hurt. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When as an adult Villarreal began to wonder how the few recordings of women singers made their way into that jukebox, questions about the money seemed inseparable from those about the music. In \u003ci\u003eListening to Rosita\u003c\/i\u003e, Villarreal seeks answers by pursuing the story of a small group of Tejana singers and entrepreneurs in Corpus Christi, Houston, and San Antonio--the \"Texas Triangle\"--during the mid-twentieth century. Ultimately she recovers a social world and cultural landscape in central south Texas where Mexican American women negotiated the shifting boundaries of race and economics to assert a public presence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drawing on oral history, interviews, and insights from ethnic and gender studies, \u003ci\u003eListening to Rosita\u003c\/i\u003e provides a counternarrative to previous research on \u003ci\u003ela música tejana\u003c\/i\u003e, which has focused almost solely on musicians or musical genres. Villarreal instead chronicles women's roles and contributions to the music industry. In spotlighting the sixty-year singing career of San Antonian Rosita Fernández, the author pulls the curtain back on all the women whose names and stories have been glaringly absent from the ethnic and economic history of Tejana music and culture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this oral history of the Tejana \u003ci\u003ecantantes \u003c\/i\u003ewho performed and owned businesses in the Texas Triangle, \u003ci\u003eListening to Rosita\u003c\/i\u003e shows how ethnic Mexican entrepreneurs developed a unique identity in striving for success in a society that demeaned and segregated them. In telling their story, this book supplies a critical chapter long missing from the history of the West.\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.49 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 27, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51817791291680,"sku":"9780806157795","price":44.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/736c35f1cde65ae9e64bff9bbb34a77b.webp?v=1781110778","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/listening-to-rosita-the-business-of-tejana-music-and-culture-1930-1955-volume-9-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}