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A history of conjunto music and musicians.

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9780292780804

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This book does a magnificent job of tracing the history of conjunto music and musicians, and does much more... Pena presents a highly convincing explanation for conjunto music as an act of working-class self-affirmation and opposition to the upwardly aspirant middle class with its self-consciously Americanized orquesta music... Fascinating and well-researched. American Anthropologist

This book does a magnificent job of tracing the history of conjunto music and musicians, and does much more.... Peña presents a highly convincing explanation for conjunto music as an act of working-class self-affirmation and opposition to the upwardly aspirant middle class with its self-consciously Americanized orquesta music.... Fascinating and well-researched. * American Anthropologist *

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Manuel PeÑa (1942–2019) was a professor of music and Chicano studies at California State University in Fresno.

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