Pants worn by Selena
name: label: wearer
content: Selena
label: user
content: Selena
label: maker
content: Mambo
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: About 32,000 Tejano music fans filled the seats of the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas on March 14, 1994, to see their favorite regional musicians acknowledged at the 14th Annual Tejano Music Awards. The Queen of Tejano music, Selena Quintanilla-Pérez wore this leather jacket and satin brassiere combo during two performances that evening –singing “Donde Quiera Que Estés” with the Barrio Boyzz and fronting her band Los Dinos singing her iconic hit “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom.”
label: Description (Brief)
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label: Description (Brief)
content: While Tejano music was (and remains) immensely popular with working-class Mexican Americans, Selena took Tejano music to the mainstream. Selena Quintanilla-Pérez and her band, Los Dinos, incorporated cumbia and pop into their sound transforming this regional genre into an international phenomenon.
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label: Description (Brief)
content: Inspired by other musical divas like Janet Jackson and Madonna, Selena’s sexy outfits broke with the outdated expectations of what female performers in Tejano music should wear. She took the shiny embellishments and form-fitting silhouettes of these pop stars and made it her own with working-class sensibility and a Texan flair.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Selena’s family donated this performance costume to the Smithsonian, and it is the same one in which she is depicted at the Selena Memorial statue in Corpus Christi, Texas.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
topic: label: referenced
content: Latino
label: used
content: Music
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of The Quintanilla Family
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.0104.02
label: accession number
content: 1999.0104
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0104.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pants
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 110.5 cm x 35.5 cm; 43 1/2 in x 14 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 40 in x 15 in x 3/4 in; 101.6 cm x 38.1 cm x 1.905 cm