Description: Mucho Corazn by Alicia Chavira-Prado This book is a biography/autoethnography written by the protagonists daughter, relates the life and performing stages of Aurora Prado Pastrano, who against overwhelming odds, followed her heart to become a bolerista, songwriter, and the first professional woman guitarrón player in United States history. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description In 1960s East Los Angeles, La Estrella de la Canción Romántica interpreted boleros and other music from the collective memory of Mexico. Though an untrained, local artist, her musical performance was as trans-racial, trans-class, trans-generational, and trans-national as the most celebrated artists of the music of latinidad. That stage of her artistic career would be key when she later helped deconstruct the machismo that framed the mariachi tradition, as a founding member of the first all-female mariachi group, Las Generalas. Mucho Corazón, a biography/autoethnography written by the protagonists daughter, relates the life- and performing stages of Aurora Prado Pastrano, who against overwhelming odds, followed her heart to become a bolerista, songwriter, and the first professional woman guitarrón player in United States history. Seamless storytelling advances the long-neglected history of Chicana grassroots artists. Framed by allusions to the music popular during her Texas-Mexican American childhood, her young adult life in Mexico, to her artistic rise in East Los Angeles, the story vividly exemplifies how gendered subjectivity infuses public performance of what the author coins "cultural music."This is a resource on regional history and its music of the 1940s-1970s. Written for anyone interested in womens participation in the production and performance of mariachi music in the United States, Mexican, Mexican American, Chicano, and Latino music, and the cultural history of the Southwest, it is especially valuable to ethnomusicology, cultural studies, womens history, womens and gender studies, Latinx studies, Chicanx studies, cultural anthropology, ethnology, and sociology, and accessible to levels from high school to higher education professionals. Author Biography Alicia Chavira-Prado (Ph.D., UCLA) is a former professor of cultural anthropology and Latino/a studies and university diversity and inclusion administrator. Her institutions included University of Houston, De Paul University, and Ohio University. She is the editor of The Feminist Alliance Project in Appalachia: Minoritized Experiences of Women Faculty and Administrators (Peter Lang, 2018). Table of Contents List of Photos – Acknowledgments – Introduction: Mucho Corazón – Sin un Amor: Life and Music in El Chamizal – Llorarás, Llorarás: Life and Music in Juárez – Mexican Education, the Golden Age of Cinema, and National Identity – Naa, Na, Na, Na, Naa: The Chicano Movement and the Birth of the East Side Sound – La Estrella de la Canción Romántica – Volver, Volver: Mariachi Music and Performance – My Participation in Mariachi Las Generalas: En Primera Voz – Mariachi Las Generalas – Epilogue: Fallaste Corazón: Legacies, Closures, and Failings of the Heart – Appendix A: Misa Panamericana/ Order of Mass as Played by Mariachi Las Generalas – Appendix B: Aurora Prado Pastranos Collection of Old Popular Song Titles – Appendix C: Selected Song Lyrics – Index. Review "This inspiring autoethnographic-biography pays homage to Aurora Prado Pastranos life as a pioneer female mariachi, guitarronera, and mother. Chavira-Prados work is necessary and relevant as it archives the contributions of those women in mariachi whose work and stories have been too often relegated to back-stage or forgotten in Chicana/x/o music history. This is an empowering interdisciplinary study of the Mexican-American diaspora through the lens of the female mariachi, her struggles, her victories, and the cultural contexts that formed the artist—the mariachi femenil."—Rachel Yvonne Cruz, Professor of Mexican American Studies/Music Specialist, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Author of The Art of Mariachi: A Curriculum Guide Review Quote "An inspiring autoethnographic-biography that pays homage to Aurora Prado Pastranos life as a pioneer female mariachi, guitarronera , and mother. Chavira-Prados work is necessary and relevant as it archives the contributions of those women in mariachi whos work and stories have been too often relegated to back-stage or forgotten in Chicana/x/o music history. An empowering interdisciplinary study of the Mexican-American diaspora through the lens of the female mariachi, her struggles, her victories, and the cultural contexts that formed the artist--the mariachi femenil ."--Rachel Yvonne Cruz, Professor of Mexican American Studies/Music Specialist at the University of Texas at San Antonio; Author of The Art of Mariachi: A Curriculum Guide Details ISBN1433190567 Author Alicia Chavira-Prado Short Title Mucho Corazón Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 1433190567 ISBN-13 9781433190568 Subtitle Stages in the Life of a Pioneer Female Mariachi Format Paperback Publisher Peter Lang Publishing Inc Imprint Peter Lang Publishing Inc Country of Publication United States Pages 230 Publication Date 2022-05-16 AU Release Date 2022-05-16 NZ Release Date 2022-05-16 US Release Date 2022-05-16 UK Release Date 2022-05-16 Edition Description New edition DEWEY 782.42164092 Audience Professional & Vocational Illustrations 28 Illustrations We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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