Listening to Rosita: The Business of Tejana Music and Culture, 1930-1955

by Mary Ann Villarreal

Book Overview

Everybody in the bar had to drop a quarter in the jukebox or be shamed by "Momo" Villarreal. It wasn't about the money, Mary Ann Villarreal's grandmother insisted. It was about the music--more songs for all the patrons of the Pecan Lounge in Tivoli, Texas. But for Mary Ann, whose schoolbooks those quarters bought, the money didn't hurt.

When as an adult Villarreal began to wonder how the few recordings of women singers made their way...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806148527
• ISBN13: 9780806148526
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.2"