RECOMMENDED READING - BARRIO RHYTHM (MEXICAN AMERICAN MUSIC IN LOS ANGELES)

I did not have this book in my library untill recently when it was recommended to me by a good friend and fellow collector.
  In his book, BARRIO RHYTHM, author Steven Loza gives a scholarly survey of the history of Mexican and Mexican-American music in Los Angeles. He traces it's history going back to the Eighteenth Century all the way up to 1990.
  The section entitled "Musical Life: Los Angeles, 1945-1990" is an informative and fascinating read. The book is full of rare and historical photographs and is most definitely a must for all historians and collectors of the East Side Sound.

Steven Loza is an author and professor of ethnomusicology at the University Of California at Los Angeles.