| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction : music, mejicanas, and the Chicano wave -- Forgetting the Alamo, remembering Rosita Fernandez -- Borders, bullets, besos : the boleros of Chelo Silva -- TexMex conjunto accordion masculinity : the queer discord of Eva Ybarra and Ventura Alonzo -- Sonido de Las Am'ricas : crossing south/south borders with Eva Garza -- Giving us that brown soul : Selena's departures and arrivals -- Epilogue : the borderlands rock reverb of Gloria Rios and Girl in a Coma |
| Summary |
Musical sound has been central to heteromasculinist productions of nation and homeland, whether Chicano, Tejano, Texan, Mexican, or American. If this assertion holds true, as Deborah R. Vargas suggests, then what are we to make of those singers and musicians whose representations of gender and sexuality are irreconcilable with canonical Chicano/Tejano music or what Vargas refers to as "la onda"? These are the "dissonant divas" Vargas discusses, performers who stimulate our listening for alternative borderlands imaginaries that are inaudible within the limits of "la onda.". Dissonant Divas in C |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Music -- Mexico -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Mexican Americans -- Music.
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Tejano music -- History and criticism
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Gender identity in music.
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Mexican American women.
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Women musicians -- United States.
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Music -- Social aspects.
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Pop Vocal.
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Gender identity in music
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Mexican American women
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Mexican Americans
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Music
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Music -- Social aspects
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Tejano music
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Women musicians
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Geschlechterrolle
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Mexikanische Einwanderin
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Musik
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Volksmusik
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Mexico
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United States
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Texas
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Music
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780816680184 |
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0816680183 |
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