Article: Lydia Mendoza's Life in Music/La historia de Lydia Mendoza: Norteno Tejano Legacies. & Lydia Mendoza: A Family Auto-biography. (Musical Women).(Lydia Mendoza: A Family Autobiography by Chris Strachwitz)

Transcript: Review: CD, "Arhoolie Records 40th Anniversary Collection, The ...
NPR All Things Considered;  January 12, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... Anniversary Collection, The Journey of Chris Strachwitz Host: NOAH ADAMS Time: 8:00 ... was started by a German expatriate, Chris Strachwitz, who fell in love with regional American ... of 1959, California schoolteacher Chris Strachwitz got into a car armed with a tape recorder ...

Article: Lydia Mendoza's Life in Music: La historia de ...
Latin American Music Review;  March 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ...BROYLES-GONZALEZ, YOLANDA. Lydia Mendoza's Life in Music: La historia de Lydia Mendoza. (Norteno Tejano Legacies). Oxford ... illustrations, appendix, compact disc. Lydia Mendoza, known alternately as "La Alondra de la ...

Article: Lydia Mendoza, The Best Of Lydia ...
Sing Out!;  September 22, 2008 ;     486 words ...LYDIA MENDOZA, The Best Of Lydia Mendoza, (Arhoolie 536). This 17 track compilation presents Lydia Mendoza, the Queen of Tejano music and the first Mexican-American pop culture icon, over the space of her 50 year career. Beginning in 1934 ...

Article: Lydia Mendoza 1916-2007.(LAST CHORUS)(Obituary)
Sing Out!;  March 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Antonio, I called the rest home where Lydia Mendoza had been residing since a stroke ended ... Mexican border music. I knew that Lydia Mendoza was the big singing star and Narciso ... years later turned into the book: Lydia Mendoza--A Family Autobiography (Arte Publico ...

Article: Life of Early Chicana Music Star Lydia Mendoza Told ...
Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  January 31, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... second chance to know and appreciate Lydia Mendoza, the now 85-year-old Norteno and ... California, Santa Barbara. In her book "Lydia Mendoza's Life in Music: La historia de Lydia Mendoza" (2001, Oxford University Press ...

Article: LYDIA MENDOZA
The Independent - London;  January 2, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Alondra de la Frontera" ("The Lark of the Borderlands"), Lydia Mendoza was an iconic figure in Tejano music - which originated among ... prestigious National Medal of the Arts by Bill Clinton. Lydia Mendoza, singer and guitarist: born Houston, Texas 21 May 1916 ...

Article: Tejano Music Trailblazer Lydia Mendoza, 91
The Washington Post;  December 25, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Lydia Mendoza, 91, a trailblazing Mexican American singer whose powerful and affecting ... fourth woman of a certain age in South Texas was named Lydia, after Lydia Mendoza," said Pat Jasper, a Texas folklorist and guest curator at the 2008 ...