Mexican American Mojo: Popular Music, Dance, and Urban Culture in Los Angeles, 1935–1968 9780822389385

Making Music in Los Angeles: Transforming the Popular 9780520933835

In this fascinating social history of music in Los Angeles from the 1880s to 1940, Catherine Parsons Smith ventures into

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Becoming Mexican American: ethnicity, culture and identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 9780195069907, 9780199762231, 9780195096484

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Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles 9780520939714

Los Angeles pulsed with economic vitality and demographic growth in the decades following World War II. This vividly det

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Hazardous Metropolis: Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles 9780520930087

Although better known for its sunny skies, Los Angeles suffers devastating flooding. This book explores a fascinating an

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Food, Health, and Culture in Latino Los Angeles 9781442251304, 9781442251298

Contemporary Los Angeles can increasingly be considered a part of Latin America. Only 200 miles from the border with Mex

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Wild Tongues: Transnational Mexican Popular Culture 9780292739413

Tracing the configuration of the slapstick, destitute Peladita/Peladito and the Pachuca/Pachuco (depicted in flashy zoot

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Cassette Culture: Popular Music and Technology in North India 0226504018

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My Los Angeles: From Urban Restructuring to Regional Urbanization 9780520957633

At once informative and entertaining, inspiring and challenging, My Los Angeles provides a deep understanding of urban d

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Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities 9780814790922

Los Angeles is well-known as a temperate paradise with expansive beaches and mountain vistas, a booming luxury housing m

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Rock Culture in Liverpool: Popular Music in the Making 9780198161783

This book looks in depth at contemporary rock 'n roll culture in Liverpool as a way of life, highlighting its assoc

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