Roberto Ramón Lint Sagarena
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814740606
- eISBN:
- 9781479854905
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814740606.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
In the wake of the Mexican–American War, competing narratives of religious conquest and re-conquest were employed by Anglo American and ethnic Mexican Californians to make sense of their place in ...
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In the wake of the Mexican–American War, competing narratives of religious conquest and re-conquest were employed by Anglo American and ethnic Mexican Californians to make sense of their place in North America. These “invented traditions” had a profound impact on North American religious and ethnic relations, serving to bring elements of Catholic history within the Protestant fold of the United States' national history as well as playing an integral role in the emergence of the early Chicano/a movement. Many Protestant Anglo Americans understood their settlement in the far Southwest as following in the footsteps of the colonial project begun by Catholic Spanish missionaries. In contrast, Californios—Mexican-Americans and Chicana/os—stressed deep connections to a pre-Columbian past over to their own Spanish heritage. Thus, as Anglo Americans fashioned themselves as the spiritual heirs to the Spanish frontier, many ethnic Mexicans came to see themselves as the spiritual heirs to a southwestern Aztec homeland.Less
In the wake of the Mexican–American War, competing narratives of religious conquest and re-conquest were employed by Anglo American and ethnic Mexican Californians to make sense of their place in North America. These “invented traditions” had a profound impact on North American religious and ethnic relations, serving to bring elements of Catholic history within the Protestant fold of the United States' national history as well as playing an integral role in the emergence of the early Chicano/a movement. Many Protestant Anglo Americans understood their settlement in the far Southwest as following in the footsteps of the colonial project begun by Catholic Spanish missionaries. In contrast, Californios—Mexican-Americans and Chicana/os—stressed deep connections to a pre-Columbian past over to their own Spanish heritage. Thus, as Anglo Americans fashioned themselves as the spiritual heirs to the Spanish frontier, many ethnic Mexicans came to see themselves as the spiritual heirs to a southwestern Aztec homeland.
Ruth Hellier-Tinoco
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195340365
- eISBN:
- 9780199896998
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195340365.003.0010
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music, Dance
Chapter Nine provides a sense of the multifarious forms and contexts of presentation of the Dance of the Old Men that proliferated from 1968 onwards in Mexico, the USA, and Europe. Brief snapshots ...
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Chapter Nine provides a sense of the multifarious forms and contexts of presentation of the Dance of the Old Men that proliferated from 1968 onwards in Mexico, the USA, and Europe. Brief snapshots and glimpses of the wide range of circulating practices encompass staged events (live and recorded), and publications (literary and photographic texts). Examples include: international folkloric tours, officially-sanctioned Mexico City staged events in museums, theaters, and stadia (Fiesta Purépecha), events by the Michoacán State Tourist Board and Discos Corasón, populist publications, tourist guides, television appearances and audio recordings. The chapter concludes with a discussion of influence of the Ballet Folklórico de México in the USA, and the proliferation of Mexican Folkloric Dance ensembles as part of the Chicano/a movementLess
Chapter Nine provides a sense of the multifarious forms and contexts of presentation of the Dance of the Old Men that proliferated from 1968 onwards in Mexico, the USA, and Europe. Brief snapshots and glimpses of the wide range of circulating practices encompass staged events (live and recorded), and publications (literary and photographic texts). Examples include: international folkloric tours, officially-sanctioned Mexico City staged events in museums, theaters, and stadia (Fiesta Purépecha), events by the Michoacán State Tourist Board and Discos Corasón, populist publications, tourist guides, television appearances and audio recordings. The chapter concludes with a discussion of influence of the Ballet Folklórico de México in the USA, and the proliferation of Mexican Folkloric Dance ensembles as part of the Chicano/a movement
