Maria Herrera-Sobek
Biographic Data
| ID | 671906 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Herrera-Sobek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Herrera-Sobek |
| SIGNATURE | HERRERA-SOBEK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calfornia, Irvine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Corrido: An invited Lecture at the "Music in Culture" Public lecture Series
This public lecture on the Mexican/Chicano corrido delivered by Professor Americo Paredes at UCLA May 13, 1981, was recorded during the event by Maria Herrera-Sobek. She recently transcribed and edited the public lecture specifically for its publication in this volume. The lecture presents an overall view of the Mexican/Chicano corrido. It expounds and offers original insights regarding its formal structure, theories about its origins, developmen…
Folklore and Ethno-Nationalism in Mexican American Literary Production. Adaptation and Transformation of Indigenous Folk Icons in the Chicano Movement
In this study I examine the adaptation and transformation of indigenous myths and legends, particularly the La Llorona, La Malinche and the Virgin of Guadalupe myths, within the explosive Mexican American ethno-nationalist movement from the turbulent 1960s and thereafter. I posit that ethno-nationalist movements as well as nationalist movements arising from marginalized groups in a nation find folk traditions indispensable for political resistanc…
A Singing Ambivalence: American Immigrants between Old World and New, 1830-1930
Book Review| April 01 2005 A Singing Ambivalence: American Immigrants between Old World and New, 1830-1930 A Singing Ambivalence: American Immigrants between Old World and New, 1830-1930, Victor R. Greene. Maria Herrera-Sobek Maria Herrera-Sobek Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2005) 24 (3): 95–96. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501611 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Linked…
Chicano Renaissance: Contemporary Cultural Trends
Among the lasting legacies of the Chicano Movement is the cultural flowering that it inspired--one that has steadily grown from the 1960s to the present. It encompassed all of the arts and continues to earn acclaim both nationally and internationally. Although this Chicano artistic renaissance received extensive scholarly attention in its initial phase, the post-Movimiento years after the late 1970s have been largely overlooked. This book meets t…
Poetry and Violence: The Ballad Tradition of Mexico's Costa Chica
Poetry and Violence: The Ballad Tradition of Mexico's Costa Chica. By John H. McDowell. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. Pp. xi + 251, photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index, CD. $39.95 cloth) Both Vicente T. Mendoza and Americo Paredes, noted Mexican ballad scholars, predicted in their writings the impending demise of corridos (ballads). John H. McDowell took this as a challenge and traveled to the interior of Mexico in the ea…
Américo Paredes: A Tribute
News| July 01 2000 Américo Paredes: A Tribute María Herrera-Sobek María Herrera-Sobek Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos (2000) 16 (2): 239–266. https://doi.org/10.2307/1052197 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation María Herrera-…
Maria Grever: Poeta Y Compositora
Toward the Promised Land
Research Article| October 01 1996 Toward the Promised Land: La frontera as Myth and Reality in Ballad and Song Maria Herrera-Sobek Maria Herrera-Sobek University of Calfornia, Irvine Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Aztlán (1996) 21 (1-2): 227–262. https://doi.org/10.1525/azt.1996.21.1-2.227 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Faceb…
Northward Bound: The Mexican Immigrant Experience in Ballad and Song
The Mexican Corrido: A Feminist Analysis
Northward Bound: The Mexican Immigrant Experience in Ballad and Song
1848-1964 One Cowboys and Outlaws Two Working and Traveling on the Railroad Three Revolution and Hard Times Four Of Migrants and Renegades Five Repatriation and Deportation Six The Bracero Program Part Two. After 1964 Seven Songs of Protest Eight Border-Crossing Strategies Nine Racial Tension Ten Poverty, Petroleum, and Amnesty Eleven Love Twelve Acculturation and Assimilation Thirteen Death Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
Northward Bound: The Mexican Immigrant Experience in Ballad and Song
Journal Article Northward Bound: The Mexican Immigrant Experience in Ballad and Song. By Maria Herrera-Sobek. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993. xxvi, 340 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-253-32737-7.) Get access Manuel Peña Manuel Peña University of Texas, Austin, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Pages 712–713, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081…
The Mexican Corrido. A Feminist Analysis
The Mexican Corrido: A Feminist Analysis
Soldaderas in the Mexican Military: Myth and History
The Mexican Corrido: A Feminist Analysis
Journal Article The Mexican Corrido: A Feminist Analysis Get access The Mexican Corrido: A Feminist Analysis. By Herrera-Sobek María. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990. xix + 151 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, $29.95.) Elizabeth Salas Elizabeth Salas University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 22, Issue 3, August 1991, Pages 349–3…
The Mexican Corrido: A Feminist Analysis
Preface Introduction 1 The Good Mother Archetype 2 The Terrible Mother Archetype 3 The Mother Goddess Archetype 4 The Lover Archetype 5 The Soldier Archetype Afterword Notes Works Cited and Consulted Index Illustrations are on pages 77-83
Necessary Theater: Six Plays about the Chicano Experience
Chicano Folk Medicine from Los Angeles, California
The Discourse of Love and Despecho
Research Article| September 01 1987 The Discourse of Love and Despecho: Representations of Women in the Chicano Décima María Herrera-Sobek María Herrera-Sobek University of California, Irvine Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Aztlán (1987) 18 (1): 69–82. https://doi.org/10.1525/azt.1987.18.1.69 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Fac…
The Bracero Experience. Elitelore versus Folklore
The Bracero Experience: Elitelore versus Folklore
The Treacherous Woman Archetype
Research Article| September 01 1982 The Treacherous Woman Archetype: A Structuring Agent in the Corrido María Herrera-Sobek María Herrera-Sobek María Herrera-Sobek is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Irvine. A Spanish version of this paper was published in Cuademzos Arnericams, Mexico City, Mexico. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Aztlán (1982) 13 (…
Del Mero Corazon (Straight from the Heart)
Poetry and Violence: The Ballad Tradition of Mexico's Costa Chica
Poetry and Violence: The Ballad Tradition of Mexico's Costa Chica. By John H. McDowell. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. Pp. xi + 251, photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index, CD. $39.95 cloth) Both Vicente T. Mendoza and Americo Paredes, noted Mexican ballad scholars, predicted in their writings the impending demise of corridos (ballads). John H. McDowell took this as a challenge and traveled to the interior of Mexico in the ea…
Northward Bound: The Mexican Immigrant Experience in Ballad and Song
1848-1964 One Cowboys and Outlaws Two Working and Traveling on the Railroad Three Revolution and Hard Times Four Of Migrants and Renegades Five Repatriation and Deportation Six The Bracero Program Part Two. After 1964 Seven Songs of Protest Eight Border-Crossing Strategies Nine Racial Tension Ten Poverty, Petroleum, and Amnesty Eleven Love Twelve Acculturation and Assimilation Thirteen Death Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
The Bracero Experience. Elitelore versus Folklore
Northward Bound: The Mexican Immigrant Experience in Ballad and Song
Journal Article Northward Bound: The Mexican Immigrant Experience in Ballad and Song. By Maria Herrera-Sobek. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993. xxvi, 340 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-253-32737-7.) Get access Manuel Peña Manuel Peña University of Texas, Austin, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Pages 712–713, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081…
The Treacherous Woman Archetype
Research Article| September 01 1982 The Treacherous Woman Archetype: A Structuring Agent in the Corrido María Herrera-Sobek María Herrera-Sobek María Herrera-Sobek is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Irvine. A Spanish version of this paper was published in Cuademzos Arnericams, Mexico City, Mexico. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Aztlán (1982) 13 (…
Del Mero Corazon (Straight from the Heart)
The Bracero Experience. Elitelore versus Folklore
The Bracero Experience: Elitelore versus Folklore
The Discourse of Love and Despecho
Research Article| September 01 1987 The Discourse of Love and Despecho: Representations of Women in the Chicano Décima María Herrera-Sobek María Herrera-Sobek University of California, Irvine Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Aztlán (1987) 18 (1): 69–82. https://doi.org/10.1525/azt.1987.18.1.69 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Fac…
Necessary Theater: Six Plays about the Chicano Experience
Chicano Folk Medicine from Los Angeles, California
The Mexican Corrido: A Feminist Analysis
Journal Article The Mexican Corrido: A Feminist Analysis Get access The Mexican Corrido: A Feminist Analysis. By Herrera-Sobek María. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990. xix + 151 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, $29.95.) Elizabeth Salas Elizabeth Salas University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 22, Issue 3, August 1991, Pages 349–3…
The Mexican Corrido: A Feminist Analysis
Preface Introduction 1 The Good Mother Archetype 2 The Terrible Mother Archetype 3 The Mother Goddess Archetype 4 The Lover Archetype 5 The Soldier Archetype Afterword Notes Works Cited and Consulted Index Illustrations are on pages 77-83
The Mexican Corrido: A Feminist Analysis
Soldaderas in the Mexican Military: Myth and History
The Mexican Corrido. A Feminist Analysis
Northward Bound: The Mexican Immigrant Experience in Ballad and Song
Journal Article Northward Bound: The Mexican Immigrant Experience in Ballad and Song. By Maria Herrera-Sobek. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993. xxvi, 340 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-253-32737-7.) Get access Manuel Peña Manuel Peña University of Texas, Austin, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Pages 712–713, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081…
Northward Bound: The Mexican Immigrant Experience in Ballad and Song
The Mexican Corrido: A Feminist Analysis
Northward Bound: The Mexican Immigrant Experience in Ballad and Song
1848-1964 One Cowboys and Outlaws Two Working and Traveling on the Railroad Three Revolution and Hard Times Four Of Migrants and Renegades Five Repatriation and Deportation Six The Bracero Program Part Two. After 1964 Seven Songs of Protest Eight Border-Crossing Strategies Nine Racial Tension Ten Poverty, Petroleum, and Amnesty Eleven Love Twelve Acculturation and Assimilation Thirteen Death Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
Toward the Promised Land
Research Article| October 01 1996 Toward the Promised Land: La frontera as Myth and Reality in Ballad and Song Maria Herrera-Sobek Maria Herrera-Sobek University of Calfornia, Irvine Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Aztlán (1996) 21 (1-2): 227–262. https://doi.org/10.1525/azt.1996.21.1-2.227 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Faceb…
Maria Grever: Poeta Y Compositora
Américo Paredes: A Tribute
News| July 01 2000 Américo Paredes: A Tribute María Herrera-Sobek María Herrera-Sobek Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos (2000) 16 (2): 239–266. https://doi.org/10.2307/1052197 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation María Herrera-…
Poetry and Violence: The Ballad Tradition of Mexico's Costa Chica
Poetry and Violence: The Ballad Tradition of Mexico's Costa Chica. By John H. McDowell. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. Pp. xi + 251, photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index, CD. $39.95 cloth) Both Vicente T. Mendoza and Americo Paredes, noted Mexican ballad scholars, predicted in their writings the impending demise of corridos (ballads). John H. McDowell took this as a challenge and traveled to the interior of Mexico in the ea…
Chicano Renaissance: Contemporary Cultural Trends
Among the lasting legacies of the Chicano Movement is the cultural flowering that it inspired--one that has steadily grown from the 1960s to the present. It encompassed all of the arts and continues to earn acclaim both nationally and internationally. Although this Chicano artistic renaissance received extensive scholarly attention in its initial phase, the post-Movimiento years after the late 1970s have been largely overlooked. This book meets t…
A Singing Ambivalence: American Immigrants between Old World and New, 1830-1930
Book Review| April 01 2005 A Singing Ambivalence: American Immigrants between Old World and New, 1830-1930 A Singing Ambivalence: American Immigrants between Old World and New, 1830-1930, Victor R. Greene. Maria Herrera-Sobek Maria Herrera-Sobek Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2005) 24 (3): 95–96. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501611 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Linked…
Folklore and Ethno-Nationalism in Mexican American Literary Production. Adaptation and Transformation of Indigenous Folk Icons in the Chicano Movement
In this study I examine the adaptation and transformation of indigenous myths and legends, particularly the La Llorona, La Malinche and the Virgin of Guadalupe myths, within the explosive Mexican American ethno-nationalist movement from the turbulent 1960s and thereafter. I posit that ethno-nationalist movements as well as nationalist movements arising from marginalized groups in a nation find folk traditions indispensable for political resistanc…
The Corrido: An invited Lecture at the "Music in Culture" Public lecture Series
This public lecture on the Mexican/Chicano corrido delivered by Professor Americo Paredes at UCLA May 13, 1981, was recorded during the event by Maria Herrera-Sobek. She recently transcribed and edited the public lecture specifically for its publication in this volume. The lecture presents an overall view of the Mexican/Chicano corrido. It expounds and offers original insights regarding its formal structure, theories about its origins, developmen…
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