...This chapter discusses the gap between the arrival of American musical romanticism and the emergence of musical modernism during the first few decades of the twentieth century. Unlike previous reports, it introduces Los Angeles as the center of music in 1910, due to the fact that there were more...

...This chapter examines the origins of Thai foodways inside the United States, focusing on food procurement as a community-building practice among Thai Americans in Los Angeles before free trade. Before the 1970s, Thai and Southeast Asian ingredients were not widely available, which led to a crisis...

...This chapter examines the demographic and economic change that has affected Los Angeles in recent years, and people of color in particular, as well as the economic conflict and racial and ethnic tension caused by the influx of Latino immigrants to the city. In particular, it considers the complaint...

...This chapter examines the attitudes of African Americans toward both Latinas/os and immigrants, and particularly toward toward proposed undocumented immigration policies, in Los Angeles. Using data from the 2007 Los Angeles County Social Survey, it considers the role of racial stereotypes...

...This chapter focuses on African American anxiety toward Latina/o immigrants in Los Angeles and what illegal immigration and changing demographics mean for the city's African Americans. It also considers the impact of immigration on Black employment as well as the sentiments of loss and displacement...

... Henri de la Falaise Kennedy Joseph Marshall Herbert “Gangster as Tragic Hero The ” Stompanato Carmine Warshow Robert Mayer Louis B Borders Ray Halley Rudolph Kefauver Estes (Hollywood/Los Angeles) Mobsters (Hollywood/Los Angeles) Gangsters Mickey Cohen Bugsy Siegel Brenda Allen (Movie...

...One of the iconic persons of Edendale, Los Angeles was Julian Eltinge, a film and vaudeville sensation. While he was hailed and adored as one of the best performers of his time, Eltinge lost his splendor as a star. Sixty years after his death, his name was not remembered, because Eltinge...

...The Los Angeles County Drainage Area (LACDA) lived up to its promise in 1969, preventing damages estimated at more than a billion dollars. As they had done with previous storms, flood controllers assessed the 1969 gale as proof of the structures' success. However, their euphoria had faded...

...Los Angeles is by no means extraordinary or exceptional in catastrophes. Its droughts are not Sahelian; its floods would be puny on the Mississippi; and its earthquakes have not approached the magnitude, death toll, or devastation of several recent Asian temblors. The lesson that Los Angeles flood...

... mobilizations, immigration debates immediately shifted and soon hinged on finding a way to provide a pathway to citizenship for all, or a portion of, the reported twelve million undocumented immigrants. This chapter examines the Catholic Church’s participation in the immigrant rights movement in Los Angeles...

... to the expanded and heavily Democratic Latino vote in the 2006 and 2008 elections. As immigrant unionization gained traction in Los Angeles and elsewhere in California, another kind of organizing among foreign-born workers was also taking shape. The “worker center” movement began in the 1990s, offering low-wage...

...This chapter discusses the history of education in Los Angeles. After the American Occupation in 1847, the Los Angeles area had few schools. Education had no part in the colonization policies of the Spanish or Mexican governments. With the American Occupation local public education really began...

...From the beginning music, painting, drama, and architectural design had a part in the life and history of the pueblo of Los Angeles, there has been no continuing line of development in any of the arts. Traditional Spanish culture was gradually diluted in the decades after 1840, and around 1875...

...Although Los Angeles is widely known for its manufacture of motion pictures and aircraft, and the extensive commercial development around its harbor, relatively few people are aware that it produces such diversified goods as automobiles, clothing, pottery, and canned fish in such quantities...

...This chapter takes a tour of southwest Los Angeles, which goes through the mixed commercial and older residential section of the city, passes the buildings of two large metropolitan newspapers, a hospital devoted exclusively to the treatment of crippled children, and two magnificent churches...

...Beverly Hills, a quiet and spotless city, the Gold Coast of the cinema world, is an independent municipality less than five square miles in extent. It lies eight miles west of Los Angeles, into which it fits like a jagged piece in a jigsaw puzzle. Stars of screen, radio, and stage come...

...This chapter describes a tour to San Juan Capistrano which takes the following route: Los Angeles–Belvedere–Montebello–Whittier–Fullerton–Anaheim–Santa Ana–Tustin–Irvine–Capistrano–Doheny Park; 65 m.; US 101. For more than 60 miles US 101 roughly parallels the course of El Camino Real (the royal...

...This chapter describes a tour to Big Pines which takes the following route: Los Angeles–Burbank–San Fernando–Palmdale–Big Pines–San Bernardino; 146.9 m.; US 6, State 138, Big Pines Rd., US 66. This route circles the San Gabriel Mountains, by way of two large valleys-the San Fernando...

...This introductory chapter provides an overview of the book's main themes. This book explores the musical urbanism of Los Angeles through the ear of Latin America. It argues that the musical life of this dispersed and dynamic metropolis is shaped by immigrant musicians and migrating, cross-border...

...This chapter presents interviews with some of the prolific Latin American session musicians in Los Angeles. These include Abraham Laboriel Sr., Justo Almario, Paulinho Da Costa, Alex Acuña, Airto Moreira, Luis Conte, and Ray Yslas. Between them, they have played on thousands of recordings for some...