Northward Bound
The Mexican Immigrant Experience in Ballad and Song
Author: MarÃa Herrera-Sobek
ISBN: 0253327377
"... provides a valuable service of not only gathering and presenting from 5,000 song texts a wide variety of ballads with full translation but also placing them all in a succinct historical context extending from the Mexican War to the present." —Journal of American Ethnic History"... [a] stunning achievement, not only because it is an intelligent and comprehensive study of Mexican immigrant ballads, but because analysis gives way to, steps aside respectfully for, a multitude of immigrants who sing their experiences of crossing the border into the U.S. with astonishing clarity and historical perspicacity." —Western Folklore"Herrera-Sobek’s folk-song collection is impressive, as are her English translations—crisp and unstilted." —MultiCultural Review"[Herrera-Sobek’s] well-written book provides historians, ethnomusicologists, sociologists, and other scholars with a case study that demonstrates how valuable song lyrics can be in their studies. Strongly recommended to humanis
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publish Date: 1993
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Composers & Musicians, History / Latin America / General, Music / General, Music / Ethnomusicology, Social Science / Folklore & Mythology
This book is available in the following Community Centers: Raza Recource Centro (Location: Wall C, Shelf 1)