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The famous Mexican folklorist Vicente Mendoza has stated that the concept of machismo, and the word macho, were not prevalent in Mexican corridos (ballads) and popular culture until the 1940s.
According to the description on the book's cover, Gene Bluestein is a musician, folklorist, and literary critic who teaches English at California State University at Fresno.
Although not a trained folklorist, Arnold Rojas writes of the vaquero (cowboy) culture of California, especially in the San Joaquin Valley at the turn of the century and into the first third of the 1900s.
That he is, indeed, a literary critic and folklorist is demonstrated not only in the generally intelligent and informative Introduction, but in two short appendices, one of which, subtitled “The Jew as American,’ analyzes rather well Philip Roth's novel, Portnoy's Complaint , while the other, titled “The Revival of KLEZmer Music,’ discusses lucidly a contemporary aspect of Yiddish folk music.
In discussing Hispano folklore, Aurelio M. Espinosa, the foremost Mexican American folklorist of the early twentieth century, delineated three generations of Hispanics in California.