Books by Manuel Pena

The evolution of the orquesta in the Southwest from its beginnings in the nineteenth century through its pinnacle in the 1970s and its decline since the 1980s.

A history of conjunto music and musicians.

Examines eleven myths that form part of the storehouse of present-day American mythologies, elucidating the nature of contemporary myths by investigating their ideological sub-terrain. This book sheds light on the socio-economic, gendered, national and racial interests that lie behind myth-making.