Hotel Mariachi: Urban Space and Cultural Heritage in Los Angeles

by Catherine L. Kurland and Enrique R. Lamadrid

Book Overview

In Boyle Heights, gateway to East Los Angeles, sits the 1889 landmark Hotel Mariachi, where musicians have lived and gathered on the adjacent plaza for more than half a century. This book is a photographic and ethnographic study of the mariachis, Mariachi Plaza de Los Angeles, and the neighborhood. The newly restored brick hotel embodies a triumphant struggle of preservation against all odds, and its origins open a portal into the Mexican pueblo's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082635372X
• ISBN13: 9780826353726
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 10.2" x 8.1"