TY - BOOK AU - Centino,Nicholas F. TI - Razabilly: Transforming Sights, Sounds, and History in the Los Angeles Latina/o Rockabilly Scene SN - 9781477323335 U1 - 306.484230979494 PY - 2022///] CY - Austin : PB - University of Texas Press, KW - Hispanic Americans KW - California KW - Los Angeles KW - Social conditions KW - 21st century KW - Mexican Americans KW - Retro (Style) in popular music KW - Rock music fans KW - Social life and customs KW - Rockabilly music KW - Social aspects KW - Rockabilly musicians KW - Rockabilly subculture KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Working class KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General KW - bisacsh KW - rockabilly, razabilly, East Los Angeles, Chicano music, Chicano Los Angeles, ethnography, rock n roll, music scenes, Latino culture, Chicano culture, Los Angeles culture N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Terminology --; Introduction --; 1. From London to East Los: A Cultural History of the International Rockabilly Scene --; 2. C’mon Baby, Let the Good Times Roll! Sites of Leisure and Memory in the Formation of the Chicana/o and Latina/o Rockabilly Scene of Greater Los Angeles --; 3. Fashioning Razabilly Bodies: Embodied Style and Stance in the Chicana/o and Latina/o Rockabilly Scene of Greater Los Angeles --; 4. Your Roots Are Showing: Tracing Genealogies and Building Cultural Memory through the Malleable Canon of the Greater Los Angeles Rockabilly Scene --; Epilogue --; Appendix: Research Sites --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - Vocals tinged with pain and desperation. The deep thuds of an upright bass. Women with short bangs and men in cuffed jeans. These elements and others are the unmistakable signatures of rockabilly, a musical genre normally associated with white male musicians of the 1950s. But in Los Angeles today, rockabilly's primary producers and consumers are Latinos and Latinas. Why are these "Razabillies" partaking in a visibly "un-Latino" subculture that's thought of as a white person's fixation everywhere else? As a Los Angeles Rockabilly insider, Nicholas F. Centino is the right person to answer this question. Pairing a decade of participant observation with interviews and historical research, Centino explores the reasons behind a Rockabilly renaissance in 1990s Los Angeles and demonstrates how, as a form of working-class leisure, this scene provides Razabillies with spaces of respite and conviviality within the alienating landscape of the urban metropolis. A nuanced account revealing how and why Los Angeles Latinas/os have turned to and transformed the music and aesthetic style of 1950s rockabilly, Razabilly offers rare insight into this musical subculture, its place in rock and roll history, and its passionate practitioners UR - https://doi.org/10.7560/323328 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781477323335 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781477323335/original ER -