Description |
xii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Series |
The Oxford music/media series |
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Oxford music/media series.
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Contents |
Introduction : listening to the Época de Oro -- The prostitute and the cinematic cabaret : musicalizing the "fallen woman" and Mexico City's nightlife -- The salon, the stage, and Porfirian nostalgia -- The sounds of indigenismo : cultural integration and musical exoticism in Janitzio (1935) and María Candelaria (1944) -- The singing charro in the comedia ranchera : music, machismo, and the invention of a tradition -- The strains of the revolution : musicalizing the soldadera in the revolutionary melodrama -- Epilogue : after the Época de Oro |
Summary |
Author Jacqueline Avila looks at the ways that Mexican cinema and its music during the silent and early sound periods continuously reshaped the contested, fluctuating space of Mexican identity, functioning both as a sign and symptom of social and political change |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-262) and index |
Subject |
Motion picture music -- Mexico -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Motion pictures, Mexican -- History -- 20th century
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National characteristics, Mexican, in motion pictures.
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National characteristics, Mexican, in motion pictures.
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Motion picture music.
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Motion pictures, Mexican.
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National characteristics, Mexican.
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Personality and culture.
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Mexico.
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2019565061 |
ISBN |
9780190671303 |
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0190671300 |
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9780190671310 |
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0190671319 |
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