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Author Avila, Jacqueline A., author

Title Cinesonidos : film music and national identity during Mexico's Época de Oro / Jacqueline Avila
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
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Description xii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series The Oxford music/media series
Oxford music/media series.
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
Motion pictures, Mexican -- History -- 20th century
National characteristics, Mexican, in motion pictures.
National characteristics, Mexican, in motion pictures.
Motion picture music.
Motion pictures, Mexican.
National characteristics, Mexican.
Personality and culture.
Mexico.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019565061
ISBN 9780190671303
0190671300
9780190671310
0190671319