S&P: México / Bibliography

VS 185X S&P: México / Bibliography / Books on Music and Related Topics


* Octavio Paz, El laberinto de la soledad (con vuelta a El laberinto de la soldead). México, D.F.: FCE 2000    (PURCHASE ONLINE)

Octavio Paz. The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings. trans. Lysander Kemp. New York: Grove Press, 1961  (Good English translation; purchase this if you're reading in English)

* Guillermo Bonfil Batalla, México Profundo: Reclaiming a Civilization (trans.  Phillip A. Dennis).  Austin: University of Texas (PURCHASE ONLINE, available in English and/or Spanish editions, also available as PDF)

* Frances Toor, A Treasury of Mexican Folkways. New York: Bonanza Books 1985 (orig. 1947) (Purchase recommended, no PDF available)
 


READ AS ASSIGNED, available as PDF:

* Rivas, Yolanda Moreno. Historia de la música popular mexicana. México, D.F.: Oceano 2008 (orig. 1979)  On Berkeley BOX as PDF. (Note: To use the search function you'll need to download the pdf. The search is quite useful, as there's no index, so download.)

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As discussed in class:

Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano

Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/ La Frontera: The New Mestiza, San Francisco, Aunt Lute Books, 1987
Gregory Rodriguez, Mongrels, Bastards, Ophans, and Vagabonds,2008.
Rodriguez, Richard, Brown: The Last Discovery of America. New York: Viking 2002.
J.M.G. Le Clezio, The Mexican Dream: Or, The Interrupted Thought of Amerindian Civilizations, 1993 (original in French)

Peter Everwine. Collecting the Animals (see the Aztec poems, his versions, within)
Ry Cooder. Los Angeles Stories.  SF: City Lights, 2011  (see "La vida es un sueño" and some of the other stories), 2008
Carlos Fuentes, Aura, 1962 (short novel, set in older part of Mexico City)

Bolaños, Marina Alonso. La "invencion" de la música indígena de México, Buenos Aires, 2008
(see Erik Hobsbawm, The Invention of Tradition, 1983). (Excellent bibliography)

Richard Rodriguez:Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (1982)
Days of Obligation: An Argument With My Mexican Father (1992)
Brown: The Last Discovery of America (2003)
(Richard Rodriguez--always a tonic point point of view--eloquent, acerbic, and often quite funny)

Gary Paul Nabhan, Singing the Turtles to the Sea: The Comcáac Art and Science of Reptiles. Berkeley: UC Press, 2003. A unique study of the Seri (Comcáac) people of costal Sonora, their myths, their art and their ecology. This remains a marvelous book.

Mendoza, Vicente T. La Canción Mexicana: Ensayo de clasificación y antología. México, D.F.: FCE 2005 (orig. 1961)
Garrido, Juan S. Historia de la música popular en México. México, D.F.: Contemperaneos 1981
Saldívar, Gabriel. Historia de la música en México (épocas precortesiana y colonial), 1934

Loza, Steven. Barrio Rhythms: Mexican American Music in Los Angeles. Urbana, Illinois: Univ. of Illinois Press 1993
Normark, Don. Chavez Ravine, 1949: A Los Angeles Story.  SF: Chronicle Books 1999. Normark's beautiful photographs.
Cull, Nicholas and Davíd Carrasco, ed. Alambrista and the U.S.-Mexico Border. Albuquerque: UNM, 2004
Chew-Sánchez, Martha.  Corridos in Migrant Memory.  Albuquerque, NM: UNM 2006
Burr, Ramiro. Tejano and Regional Mexican Music. New York: Billboard Books, 1999
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Serrano, Álvaro Ochoa, ed. De occidente es el mariache y de méxico. Guadalajara: Colegio de Michoacán 2001
Calleja, Julian. Los mejores corridos mexicanos. México D.F.: El Libro Español 1972
Quintanilla, José Ernesto Infante. Pedro Infante: El Ídolo inmortal. México, D.F.: Oceano, 2006 (questionable)

Good General References on Mexican music:

Bibliography in Yolanda Moreno Rivas: an excellent condensed bibliography; refer to it for additional sources
Juan S.Garrido, Historia de la música popular en México
Vicente T. Mendoza (numerous publications on la música mexicana, including the corrido)
Gerónimo Baqueiro Foster (see his ethnomusicological studies)
Daniel Castaneda