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Archive: March 2025 (2 Posts)

Image of part of the score for "The Three Caballeros" with text and notated music.

“Good Neighbors”: An Example of Mariachi in American Popular Culture

Posted by: Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres

Explore the way Disney showcased the work of Mexican songwriters Manuel Esperón and Ernesto Cortár in several popular animated films in the 1940s as part of their effort to incorporate FDR's "Good Neighbor" policy. The effort resulted in sharing elements of mariachi music with American film audiences. This guest blog by Music Reference Specialist Stacey Jocoy draws on an insightful interview with ethnomusicologist and mariachi expert Dr. Lauryn Salazar (Associate Professor of Music, Tarleton State University).

Posted in: American history, Composers, Film Music, Latin American History, Sheet Music

Contact sheet of multiple black and white images of Jonathan Larson in different seated poses.

“The Jonathan Larson Project” Sourced from Library of Congress Collection

Posted by: Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres

Discover how manuscripts from the Music Division's Jonathan Larson Collection have shaped the creation of "The Jonathan Larson Project," now running off-Broadway in New York. Senior Music Specialist Mark Eden Horowitz discusses how show creator Jennifer Ashley Tepper's research in the collection led to the creation of this new show that brings to the songs that did not make the final cut for some of Larson's major projects.

Posted in: Composers, Musical Theater, Theater