Northward Bound The Mexican Immigrant Experience in Ballad and Song

Northward Bound argues that the folksong is a viable and important document chronicling the history of Chicano/as in the United States. It traces Mexican emigration to the United States from 1848 to 1991 through the lyrics of Mexican ballads (corridos) and contemporary popular songs (canciones). These autobiographical songs reflect the relationship between individual experience and the history-making process. Over a century of Chicano history unfolds in the more than 150 folksongs Herrera-Sobek has gathered: lives of cowboys and outlaws; construction of the railroad; the Mexican revolution; the Roaring Twenties and subsequent Depression; the bracero experience; the CZcaron;sar ChDagger;vez farmworkersOtilde; union movements; responses to racism; Border Patrol brutality and border-crossing strategies.Herrera-Sobek, María is the author of 'Northward Bound The Mexican Immigrant Experience in Ballad and Song' with ISBN 9780253327376 and ISBN 0253327377.