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Lydia Mendoza: A Family Autobiography
The story of renowned Mexican-American singer, Lydia Mendoza, and her family is not the usual show-business rags-to-riches tale, but really the struggle of a Mexican family that fled the revolution at home to struggle for economic and cultural survival in the United States
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Oral histories can be a dicey enterprise, especially when the subjects are musicians, who are often inarticulate. "Lydia Mendoza: A Family Autobiography" is an exception. Mendoza was perhaps the greatest of the early Mexican-American musicians, known as "The Lark of the Border." But she did not do it alone--she came from a family troupe that started on the "Grass Plaza" of San Antonio, frequently played in bars, and graduated to tours of California, Colorado, and Northern Mexico, traveling betwe
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Aug 20, 2007
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tejano/a lit. readers; folklore and music lovers
I learned so much about Lydia Mendoza and her family. I would highly recommend it.
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