Singing to the Machine: Rodolfo Garcia's Autobiographical Report

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1998Author
Haney, Peter C.
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University of Texas, Department of Linguistics, Austin, Texas
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Article
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Scholarly/refereed, publisher version
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My paper examines an autobiographical monologue which Rodolfo García, an elderly Mexican American vaudevillian from San Antonio, Texas, recorded on his home tape recorder. In the monologue, Mr. García moved from a temporally ordered story to a performance of several song parodies he once sang on stage. He thus brought diachronic and synchronic modes of apprehension of past events (i.e., narrative and list) into dialogue. By presenting a working-class masculine mexicano self grounded in a family tradition of performance, he responded creatively to social tensions within his community, as well as those inherent in the ethnographic encounter.
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Haney, Peter C. "Singing to the Machine: Rodolfo Garcia's Autobiographical Report." Texas Linguistics Forum 42: 133-144.
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