PURO CONJUNTO: An Album in Words & Pictures / Writings, Posters & Photographs from the Tejano Conjunto Festival San Antonio 1982-1998 (Music History /personal Histories / Poems / Stories / Tradition, etc)

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 and music critics, interviews with legendary performers, autobiographical accounts, short stories, and poetry. Their subjects include the history of conjunto music, its signature instruments, the social context and functions of conjunto, and personal histories of conjunto music giants. Most of these pieces have never been published elsewhere. Photos and full-color reproductions of the festival posters accompany the text. This collection should interest conjunto and folk-music fans, as well as students and scholars"---, ----CONTENTS are: Part One: Conjunto: A Primer -The Unofficial Conjunto Primer for the Uninitiated Music Lover (Carlos Guerra) /Part Two: Raíz y Tradición: Conjunto-Music History -The Emergence of Conjunto Music, 1935-1955 (Manuel Peña); From Ranchero to Jaitón: Ethnicity and Class in Texas-Mexican Music (Manuel Peña); Conjunto Music: The First Fifty Years (Manuel Peña); The Accordion on Both Sides of the Border (Carlos Jesús Gómez Flores); Three of the Greatest Bajo Sexto Players in the History of Conjunto (Ramón Hernández, Jr. ); Women in Conjunto Music (Ramiro Burr); El Conjunto Bernal: Style and Legacy (Max Martínez); The Tejano Conjunto Festival en San Antonio: Eight Years of Change (Carmen Luévanos)---Part Three: Instrumentos: Accordion, Bajo Sexto, Saxophone- Accordion Menace . . . Just Say Mo'! (Carlos Guerra); The Accordion: Passion, Emotion, Musicianship (Ramiro Burr); An Informal History of the Bajo Sexto (Ramón Hernández, Jr.); Macías: The Stradivarius of Bajo Sextos (Ron Young); El Saxofón in Tejano and Norteño Music (José B. Cuellar) --- Part Four: Imágenes del Festival: Posters and Photographs; Posters: various artists; Photos: Al Rendón --- Part Five: Contexto: Cultural and Social Aspects of Conjunto - Tejano Music as an Expression of Cultural Nationalism (José R. Reyna); The Popular in Conjunto Tejano Music: Changes in Chicano Class and Identity (Avelardo Valdez and Jeffrey A. Halley); La Voz del Pueblo Tejano: Conjunto Music and the Construction of Tejano Identity in Texas (Cathy Ragland); Why Are There So Few Women Conjunto Artists? (Avelardo Valdez and Jeffrey A. Halley); El Baile: Culture and Contradiction in Mexican American Dancing (José E. Limón) --- Part Six: Platicando con los Grandes: Interviews with Conjunto Legends (original Spanish interviews followed by English translations) -Santiago Jiménez, Sr. (Juan Tejeda); Valerio Longoria (Max Martínez); Eva Ybarra (Juan Tejeda); Bruno Villarreal (Clayton T. Shorkey); ¡Conjunto! Estilo y Clase: Narciso Martínez, Valerio Longoria, Tony de la Rosa, Paulino Bernal, Flaco Jiménez y Esteban Jordán (Juan Tejeda) ---Part Seven: Visiones de Conjunto: Personal Histories, Poems, and Short Stories -Confessions of an Accordion Abuser (Ismael Dovalina); An Odyssey through the Magical Land of Conjunto, El Movimiento Xicano, and the Tejano Conjunto Festival (Juan Tejeda); Un Recuerdo a Valerio (Lonnie Guerrero); Esteban (Edén Torres); Steve Jordan (Jerry Tumlinson); Conjunto at Night (Frances Yturri); El Baile Grande (José Flores Peregrino); Body by Fisher (Joe Saldívar); Conjunto Memories (Susana Nevárez Morton)---About the Contributors --Index, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// ---sizes are approximate---, ---accompanying interior scans show as being very dark in the gutters which is from the very tight binding not opening flat enough for a brighter scan ---. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good (see description). Illus. by Clemente F Guzman iii Cover Art . 6w x 9.25 Inches.