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Manuel Chavez Mora. Born in Zelza, California, 1919. Died in Los Angeles, California, 2001. ==Biography and historical context== Meño Mora was born in the San Fernando Valley in 1919 to Francisco Mora, of Michoacán, Mexico, and Maria de Jesús Chávez, of San Luis Potosí, Mexico. In the early 20th Century, rural areas and urban barrios developed into centers for Mexican immigrant and Mexican American communities. Steven Loza 〔Loza, Steven. 1993. Barrio Rhythm: Mexican American Music in Los Angeles. University of Illinois.〕 writes that the corrido (ballad) became a means by which immigrants expressed their concerns and that Spanish-language radio and recording industries began to flourish. In this way, Mexican music became a means of inscribing Mexican culture into the Californian landscape. This was the first rearticulation of the Mexican in California since the EuroAmericans had established cultural dominance in the state following the gold rush and the establishment of the railroads in the 1870s. Prior to 1929, growers and industrialists collaborated with the Department of State, the Department of Agriculture, and the Department of the Interior to allow for a surplus of Mexican migrant workers. Mora's parents were among these workers who "benefited" from this legal free flow of labor and came to California to work on the railroads. Mora grew up in a decidedly Mexican environment, speaking Spanish, traveling to and from Mexico to visit family, and accompanying his mother's singing on the guitar. At an early age, Mora began performing with various musical ensembles. Though he worked many day jobs as a late teen and young adult, he dedicated all of his free time to rigorous practice and touring. He married Eleanor (Noi) Moreno Rico and with her had a son, Manuel Rico Mora Jr. They later divorced and he then married Theresa Bravo, with whom he had two children, Hugo and Theresa Mora. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Manuel Mora (musician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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