This week’s readings were really interesting even more because they were about chicanos and In a white institute it’s rare to learn about chicano and latin music or even history. The website by Martha Gonzales a chicana artivitsa, PhD has a lot of great context. There are tabs for academia, in this tab she has previous lectures, research, and even her conference and panel presentations. In the Music tab she has different music information and songwriting, the songs are Latinx music and indigenous culture.
In Her bio it talks about how big of an impact she’s made on the music and education as a chicana. As a Chicana myself it’s really empowering to see how other Chicanas are taking up space and challenging whiteness. She has represented “Chicano in spaces such as the U.S. Library of Congress and The Kennedy Center in September of 2011”. This is the type of things I enjoy learning and reading because it gives me a sense of belonging and empowerment. The article American sabor was also very interesting. It was actually funny I didn’t notice it was in spanish when I first started reading the chapter. I started reading and about half way down I realized it was in spanish. In the section Hip-Hop Y Sus Parientes I found interesting that it talked about the disco music with a hint of chicanismo. She says they start with “la campana y la conga, seguida por la linea del bajo” which translates to they start with the bell and conga, and then add the bass line. Before this course I would of never thought about punk, disco , hiphop to have been inspired or even have a little bit of latino in them. I really enjoyed learning the different origins of modern music.
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