Dissonant divas in chicana music
Subtitle: the limits of la onda
By: Deborah R. Vargas
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9780816673162; 9780816673179
Subjects: Gender identity in music; Mexican American women; Social aspects; Tejano music; History and criticism; Mexican Americans; Music; Women musicians
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : music, mejicanas, and the Chicano wave; title: Forgetting the Alamo, remembering Rosita Fernandez; title: Borders, bullets, besos : the boleros of Chelo Silva; title: TexMex conjunto accordion masculinity : the queer discord of Eva Ybarra and Ventura Alonzo; title: Sonido de Las Am'ricas : crossing south/south borders with Eva Garza; title: Giving us that brown soul : Selena's departures and arrivals; title: Epilogue : the borderlands rock reverb of Gloria Rios and Girl in a Coma.