Jose Martin Limon

Jose! Born to Dance: The Story of Jose Limon (Tomas Rivera Mexican-American Children's Book Award (Awards))

José was a boy with a song in his heart and a dance in his step. Born in Mexico in 1908, he came into the world kicking like a steer, and grew up to love to draw, play the piano, and dream. José's dreaming took him to faraway places. He dreamed of bullfighters and the sounds of the cancan dancers th...

Dancing with the Devil: Society and Cultural Poetics in Mexican-American South Texas (New Directions in Anthro Writing)

Combining shrewd applications of current cultural theory with compelling autobiography and elegant prose, José E. Limón works at the intersection of anthropology, folklore, popular culture, history, and literary criticism. A native of South Texas, he renders a historical and ethnographic account of ...

Jose Limon: An Unfinished Memoir (Studies in Dance History)

An illustrated autobiography of the early years of a major American choreographer.

Jose Limon (Library of American Choreographers)

Dew on the Thorn (Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage)

Dew on the Thorn seeks to recreate the life of Texas Mexicans as Anglo culture was gradually encroaching upon them. Gonzalez provides us with a richly detailed portrait of South Texas, focusing on the cultural traditions of Texas Mexicans at a time when the divisions of class and race were pressing ...

Illustrated Dance Technique of Jose Limon

Providing the principles of dance developed by José Limón, this book gives the historical and physical aspects of his style and approach to dance that will be of interest to dancers, teachers, and students of dance at every level. It includes preparatory exercises that teach the fundamentals of danc...

Dancing With the Devil: Society and Cultural Poetics in Mexican-American South Texas

Dancing With the Devil: Society and Cultural Poetics in Mexican-American South Texas

Jose Limon: An Unfinished Memoir

Jose Limon: An Unfinished Memoir

Felix Longoria's Wake: Bereavement, Racism, and the Rise of Mexican American Activism

Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems

Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems

Caballero