| Description |
1 online resource (159 pages) |
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Querencias |
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Querencias
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| Contents |
Introduction / Evangeline Ordaz-Molina -- Pobladores to mariachis : a personal journey / Catherine López Kurland -- A paean to Santa Cecilia, her fiesta, and her mariachis / Enrique R. Lamadrid |
| Summary |
In Boyle Heights, gateway to East Los Angeles, sits the 1889 landmark "Hotel Mariachi," where musicians have lived and gathered on the adjacent plaza for more than half a century. This book is a photographic and ethnographic study of the mariachis, Mariachi Plaza de Los Angeles, and the neighborhood. The newly restored brick hotel embodies a triumphant struggle of preservation against all odds, and its origins open a portal into the Mexican pueblo's centuries-old multiethnic past. Miguel Gandert's compelling black-and-white images document the hotel and the vibrant mariachi community of the |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-104) and index |
| Notes |
English and Spanish |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Boyle Hotel (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Pictorial works
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| SUBJECT |
Boyle Hotel (Los Angeles, Calif.) fast |
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Musik
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Stadtgestaltung
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Kulturerbe
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Los Angeles, Calif.
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| Genre/Form |
illustrated books.
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Illustrated works
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Pictorial works
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Illustrated works.
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Ouvrages illustrés.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lamadrid, Enrique R
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| ISBN |
9780826353726 |
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082635372X |
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9780826353733 |
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0826353738 |
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