MPC's Recommended Bibliography for
Mariachi Research

Campos, Ruben M. "El Folklore y La Música Mexicana: Investigación Acerca De La Cultura Musical en México (1525-1925)." México, D.F.: Publicaciones de la Secretaría de Educación Pública, 1928.

Norma E. Cantú and Olga Nájera-Ramírez, editors. "Chicana Traditions, Continuity and Change." University of Illinois, 2002.
"Transgressing the Taboo: A Chicana's Voice in the Mariachi World," by Leonor Xóchitl Pérez, Ph.D., pg. 143

Cashion, Susan Valerie. “The Son and Jarabe: Mestizo Dance Forms of Jalisco, México.” M.A. in Dance. University of California, Los Angeles, 1967.

Clark, Jonathon. Program notes to "Mexico’s Pioneer Mariachis," vol. 1-3, Folklyric CD 7011, 7012, and 7015. El Cerrito, CA, Arhoolie Productions, Inc., 1992-94.

Fogelquist, Mark. “Rhythm and Form in the Contemporary Son Jaliscience.” Master’s thesis, University of California, Los Angeles, 1975.

Galindo, Miguel. "Nociones de Historia de la Música Mexicana." Vol. 1 Colima: Tipografia de “El Dragon”, 1933.

Hermes, Rafael. "Origen e Historia del Mariachi." México: Editorial Katún, S.A., 1983.

Jáuregui, Jesús. "El Mariachi: El Símbolo Musical de México." México: Banpaís, S.N.C., 1991.

LaValle, Josefina. “El Jarabe... El jarabe ranchero o jarabe de Jalisco." 1st ed. México, D.F.: INBA Dirección de Investigación, 1988.

Loza, Steven. "Barrio Rhythm: Mexican American Music in Los Angeles." Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1993.

Mendoza, Vicente T. "Panorama de la Música Tradicional de México." México: Universidad Autónoma de México, 1956.

Nájera-Ramírez, Olga. "La Fiesta de los Tastoanes"
University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1997.

Ochoa Serrano, Álvaro, editor. De occidente es el mariache y de Mexico... revista de una tradición. Zamora, Michoacán: El Colegio de Michoacán and Secretaría de Cultura de Jalisco, 2001.
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Ochoa Serrano, Álvaro. Mitote, Fandango y Mariacheros. Zamora, Michoacán: El Colegio de Michoacán and El Colegio de Jalisco. 2000, 2nd ed.
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Pearlman, Steven R. “Mariachi Music in Los Angeles.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 1988.

Perez, Leonor X. and Sobrino, Laura.  "A History of Women in Mariachi Music,"
www.sobrino.net/mpc/womenmariachi

Quintanilla, Michael. “Mariachi Queen”, Los Angeles Times Life and Styles (article). Sept. 1995.

Saldívar, Gabriel. "Una Historia de la Música en México (Epocas Precortesiana y Colonial)." México: Secretaría de Educación Pública, Publicaciones del Departamento de Bellas Artes, 1934.

Sands, Kathleen Mullen. "Charrería Mexicana: An Equestrian Folk Tradition." 1st Ed. Tucson & London: The University of Arizona Press, 1993.

Sheehy, Daniel E. “The ‘Son Jarocho’: The History, Style, and Repertory of a Changing Mexican Musical Tradition.” Ph.D. dissertation. University of California, Los Angeles, 1979.

Sheehy, Daniel E. "Mariachi Music in America: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture."  Includes CD.  Publishing date due July 29, 2005.  Global Music Series. http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Music/WorldMusicEthnomusicology/?ci=0195141466&view=usa

Stevenson, Robert. "Music in Mexico: A Historical Survey." New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1952.

Musics of Multicultural America: A Study of Twelve Musical Communities, edited by Kip Lornell and Anne K. Rasmussen. "Mexican Mariachi Music: Made in the U.S.A.," by Daniel Sheehy.  pages 131-154. Schirmer Books, 1997.  Library of Congress Number: 97-19860

Music in Latin American Culture.  Regional Traditions.  John M. Schechter, General Editor.  Schirmer Books, 1999. "Popular Mexican Musical Traditions: The Mariachi of West Mexico and the Conjunto Jarocho of Veracruz," by Daniel Sheehy. pages 34-78. Library of Congress Number:  99-13859.

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 2.  South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, Dale A. Olsen and Daniel Sheehy, editors. Garland Publishing, Inc., 1998.

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