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Chican@ artivistas : music, community, and transborder tactics in East Los Angeles /

"Gonzalez's manuscript uses the theoretical underpinnings of Chicana and African-American feminist intellectual history and epistemology to create a new understanding of the work done by Chicana artists and activists (or artivistas) from East Los Angeles from 1995 to the present. Gonzalez...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gonzalez, Martha (Author)
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"Gonzalez's manuscript uses the theoretical underpinnings of Chicana and African-American feminist intellectual history and epistemology to create a new understanding of the work done by Chicana artists and activists (or artivistas) from East Los Angeles from 1995 to the present. Gonzalez is a well-known musician from this community herself and, with this background, is especially focused on the ways the arts, particularly music, have created community engagement. Gonzalez blends her own story as a Mexican immigrant's daughter in California who went on to become a Grammy Award-winning musician (as part of the band Quetzal) into her work as an activist and her career as a scholar"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 168 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781477321386
1477321381
9781477321393
147732139X