Manuel Peña
Manuel Peña is an anthropologist with an extensive career in writing and teaching. His publications include The Texas-Mexican Conjunto, which won third place in the Chicago Folklore Prize International competition; Música Tejana; and The Mexican American Orquesta, which won a Southwest Book Award from the Border Regional Library Association. He resides in Clovis, California.
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Where the Ox Does Not Plow
A Mexican American Ballad
By Manuel Peña
University of New Mexico Press
Manuel Peña chronicles his transformative journey from migrant worker to academia in twenty-six poignant life episodes.
- Copyright year: 2008
The Mexican American Orquesta
Music, Culture, and the Dialectic of Conflict
By Manuel Peña
University of Texas Press
The evolution of the orquesta in the Southwest from its beginnings in the nineteenth century through its pinnacle in the 1970s and its decline since the 1980s.
- Copyright year: 1999
The Texas-Mexican Conjunto
History of a Working-class Music
By Manuel Peña
University of Texas Press
A history of conjunto music and musicians.
- Copyright year: 1985
A Texas-Mexican Cancionero
Folksongs of the Lower Border
By Américo Paredes; Introduction by Manuel Peña
University of Texas Press
Sixty-six folksongs from Tejano culture.
- Copyright year: 1995
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