Chican@ Artivistas: Music, Community, and Transborder Tactics in East Los Angeles
Martha Gonzalez, "Chican@ Artivistas: Music, Community, and Transborder Tactics in East Los Angeles"
English | ISBN: 1477321136 | 2020 | 184 pages | PDF | 8 MB
English | ISBN: 1477321136 | 2020 | 184 pages | PDF | 8 MB
As the lead singer of the Grammy Award–winning rock band Quetzal and a scholar of Chicana/o and Latina/o studies, Martha Gonzalez is uniquely positioned to articulate the ways in which creative expression can serve the dual roles of political commentary and community building. Drawing on postcolonial, Chicana, black feminist, and performance theories, Chican@ Artivistas explores the visual, musical, and performance art produced in East Los Angeles since the inception of NAFTA and the subsequent anti-immigration rhetoric of the 1990s.
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