MARK PEDELTY is Associate Professor on the faculty of the General College at the University of Minnesota.

"This is a charming and engrossing account of the history of largely popular street (and public face-to-face) music in Mexico City and surrounding regions from pre-conquest to the dawn of the twenty-first century ... done with a great deal of style and flair." Patricia Seed, Professor of History, Rice University

This is a charming and engrossing account of the history of largely popular street (and public face-to-face) music in Mexico City and surrounding regions from pre-conquest to the dawn of the twenty-first century . . . done with a great deal of style and flair. (Patricia Seed, Professor of History, Rice University)