Mexican American Mojo: Popular Music, Dance, and Urban Culture in Los Angeles, 1935-1968

by Anthony Macías

Book Overview

Stretching from the years during the Second World War when young couples jitterbugged across the dance floor at the Zenda Ballroom, through the early 1950s when honking tenor saxophones could be heard at the Angelus Hall, to the Spanish-language cosmopolitanism of the late 1950s and 1960s, Mexican American Mojo is a lively account of Mexican American urban culture in wartime and postwar Los Angeles as seen through the evolution of dance styles,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822343223
• ISBN13: 9780822343226
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"