Publication Date
2022
Collection
Capstones
Contributor
Sylvia Mendoza, Gloria Gonzales, Jaime Macias, Richard Herrera, Rosa Guzman. Gabriel Velasquez, Rambo Salinas, Patricia Elizondo, Chuco Garcia, Eva Ybarra
Advisor
Lindsey Wieck
Description
The West Side Sound Oral History Project is a collaborative effort that stemmed from the application for a seed grant from the UTSA Westside Community Partnerships Faculty Seed Grants. The grant program serves with the intention of projects that are “likely to catalyze and support meaningful community and academic engagement across research spectrum to improve bienestar of WCP [Westside Community Partnerships] residents.” The project collects oral history interviews with community members, musicians, DJs and music enthusiasts that were/are a part of this music genre scene. West Side Sound is a genre of music that was largely influenced by a combination of Black music like R&B & rock ‘n’ roll and conjunto, country, and western music but was performed by San Antonio’s West and East Side communities. This project’s objective is to document the history of West Side Sound through the historical memory, and experiential knowledge of the interviewees who participate. The main goal of the West Side Sound Oral History Project is to document the oral recollections of musical minds, musicians, community members community members of the West Side Sound.
Keywords
Westside, Westside Community Partnerships (WCP), West Side Sound, Musicians, UTSA, Chicano, Mexican Americans, African Americans
Document Type
Text
Medium
manuscript, oral history
Format
pdf, MP4
Size or Duration
16 pages
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Publisher
St. Mary's University (San Antonio, Tex.)
City
San Antonio, Texas