çPuro Conjunto! An Album in Words and Pictures (CMAS Colecci÷n Cultura Tapa blanda - 2001

Texas, USA: Texas: CMAS Books - Center for Mexican American Studies University of Texas at Austin / Guadalupe Cultural Arts Centre, San Antonio, 2001, 1st Edition, First Printing, 2001. ----------softcover, a Very Good/Very Good+ example, a bit of light rubbing, crease on rear panel, 441 pages, photos, some contents are in Spanish but most is in English, ---"From the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas to East L.A. to the barrios of Chicago, people are listening to the heartfelt, accordion-driven sounds of conjunto. Born in South Texas in the 1920s, conjunto has become popular throughout the United States, Mexico, and, of late, Europe and Japan. But Texas remains the heart of conjunto music making. Indeed, the largest conjunto festival in the world is the Tejano Conjunto Festival en San Antonio, founded in 1982. ¡Puro Conjunto! is a wide-ranging collection of writings taken from the festival’s program magazine, Tonantzin. These writings include scholarly essays, articles by journalists… Leer más

University of Texas Press, 2001. Paperback. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.