In memoriam: Francisco González, el gran músico, Son Jarocho harpist, luthier, and founding member of Los Lobos desde East Los Angeles (1954-2022).

The body of transnational Son Jarocho research continues to grow with interventions by scholars across disciplines centering the foundational work of practitioners from multiple generations and geographic locations. This book makes profound contributions to the intellectual and artistic genealogy of Son Jarocho scholarship and Mario Barradas’s foundational influence in the genre’s developments, divergences, and border crossings. The four authors of Mario Barradas & Son Jarocho: The Journey of a Mexican Regional Music contribute significantly to this research by focusing on the multifaceted contributions of this legendary harpist to the history and development of Son Jarocho as a living musical tradition. Propelled by deeply personal points of entry, González, Broyles-González, Figueroa Hernández, and Barradas paint a rich portrait of his journey as a musician in Tierra Blanca, Veracruz, and...

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