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Musical sound has been central to heteromasculinist productions of nation and homeland, whether Chicano, Tejano, Texan, Mexican, or American. 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

• Title : Dissonant Divas in Chicana Music: The Limits of La Onda
• Author : Deborah R. Vargas
• Rating : 4.77 (730 Vote)
• Publish : 2015-5-23
• Format : Paperback
• Pages : 288 Pages
• Asin : 0816673179
• Language : English

Musical sound has been central to heteromasculinist productions of nation and homeland, whether Chicano, Tejano, Texan, Mexican, or American. 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 Chicana Music focuses on the Texan monument of the Alamo and its association with Rosita Fernandez; Tejano corrido folklore and its musical antithesis in Chelo Silva; the female accordion-playing bodies of Ventura Alonza and Eva Ybarra as incompatible with the instrumental labor of conjunto music; geogra

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About the AuthorDeborah R. Vargas is associate professor of Chicano/Latino studies at the University of California, Irvine.

Vargas is associate professor of Chicano/Latino studies at the University of California, Irvine.

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