Domestic Dramas: Mexican American Music as an Archive of Immigrant Women's Experiences, 1920s-1950s

Autor/in	Barrera, Magdalena L.
Titel	Domestic Dramas: Mexican American Music as an Archive of Immigrant Women's Experiences, 1920s-1950s
Quelle	In: Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 37 (2012) 1, S.7-35 (29 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0005-2604
Schlagwörter	Music; Females; Mexican Americans; Sexuality; Hispanic Americans; Immigrants; Humor; Figurative Language; Interdisciplinary Approach; History; Family Life; Musical Composition; Singing; Anxiety; Cultural Influences; Marriage; Folk Culture; Intimacy; Acculturation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Musik; Weibliches Geschlecht; Hispanoamerikaner; Sexualität; Hispanic; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Humoristische Darstellung; Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; Geschichte; Geschichtsdarstellung; Komponieren; Gesang; Angst; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Ehe; Intimität; Akkulturation
Abstract	Mexican women's working and romantic lives were frequent subject matter in early-twentieth-century Mexican American music. Surprisingly, this trend is rendered nearly invisible by the corpus of scholarly work that focuses on the male-centered "heroic corrido," particularly the class and race conflicts represented in that "masculine" genre. This interdisciplinary analysis reveals that the music of what can be called "domestic drama"--popular Mexican American folksongs that comment on women, work, and marriage--offers rich evidence of how Mexican communities debated immigrant women's increased personal freedoms in the United States. Beneath the songwriters' often humorous language and playful melodies lies tremendous anxiety about women's sexuality and growing visibility in the larger Mexican American community. This essay explores the challenges of using the music of domestic drama to understand immigrant women's experiences from the 1920s to the 1950s. It demonstrates that lyrics centering on romance and cultural assimilation can be read politically as metaphors for Mexican communities' economic concerns. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10