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Autore |
Vargas Deborah R |
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Titolo |
Dissonant divas in chicana music [[electronic resource] ] : the limits of la onda / / Deborah R. Vargas |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2012 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (337 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Music - Mexico - 20th century - History and criticism |
Mexican Americans |
Tejano music - History and criticism |
Gender identity in music |
Mexican American women |
Women musicians - United States |
Music - Social aspects |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; INTRODUCTION: Music, Mejicanas, and the Chicano Wave; ONE: Remember the Alamo, Remember Rosita Fernández; TWO: Borders, Bullets, Besos: The Ballad of Chelo Silva; THREE: Tex-Mex Conjunto Accordion Masculinity: The Queer Discord of Eva Ybarra and Ventura Alonzo; FOUR: Sonido de Las Américas: Crossing South-South Borders with Eva Garza; FIVE: Giving Us That Brown Soul: Selena's Departures and Arrivals; EPILOGUE: The Borderlands Rock Reverb of Gloria Ríos and Girl in a Coma; Acknowledgments; Notes; Permissions; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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