Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Terminology
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. From London to East Los: A Cultural History of the International Rockabilly Scene
• Chapter 2. C’mon Baby, Let the Good Times Roll! Sites of Leisure and Memory in the Formation of the Chicana/o and Latina/o Rockabilly Scene of Greater Los Angeles
• Chapter 3. Fashioning Razabilly Bodies: Embodied Style and Stance in the Chicana/o and Latina/o Rockabilly Scene of Greater Los Angeles
• Chapter 4: Your Roots Are Showing: Tracing Genealogies and Building Cultural Memory through the Malleable Canon of the Greater Los Angeles Rockabilly Scene
• Epilogue
• Appendix. Research Sites
• Notes
• Bibliography

About the Author

Nicholas F. Centino is an assistant professor of Chicana/o studies at California State University Channel Islands.

Reviews

Razabilly chronicles the rise of rockabilly among La Raza (a 20th century term for Spanish-speaking communities), offering a fascinating cultural history without reducing the story to any misleadingly simple arguments…[a] nuanced study.
*The Current*

Razabilly is a noteworthy study among newer interdisciplinary works on the making and remaking of Los Angeles. It dexterously examines how Chicanas/os and Latinas/os within this music scene experienced, survived, and even thrived during the convoluted 2000s...Most significantly, Centino shows how during a time when the threats to disempower and demonize them increased, Chicanas/os and Latinas/os drew from their collective cultural memories to assert their rights to space and place in Los Angeles—for their own leisure, for a good time, and to seek a better life.
*California History*