"Useful collection of anecdotal biographical/autobiographical essays dealing with folk and popular musicians who flourished in the Lagunera region (states of Durango and Coahuila) from the 1940s-60s: Gerónimo Morales Gaspar (to whom the volume is dedicated); Andrés Olvera Gómez (and the Conjunto de Cuerdas 'Casino Torreón'); Gilberto Gallegos Joven; José Macías Salas; Alfonso Arreola Palacios; Gregorio Treviño Alzalde; Salvador Enríquez; Alfredo Medina Nevárez; Pedro Palacios Gurrola; Amador Vaquera Cabrera; Bernardo Suárez Botello; Jesús Gallegos Joven; Armando Ramos Martínez; Manuel Ortiz Ríos; Adela Campos Navarro; Antonio García García; José Flores Simental; Adolfo Macías Salas; Antonio Lopez Moreno; Nicolás Meraz Alvarado; Irineo García Esparza; Apolinar Rodríguez Meza; and Nestor Mesta Chairez"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.