{"product_id":"dissonant-divas-in-chicana-music-the-limits-of-la-onda-paperback-softback-9780816673179","title":"Dissonant Divas in Chicana Music; The Limits of La Onda (Paperback \/ softback) 9780816673179","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDissonant Divas in Chicana Music\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Limits of La Onda\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDeborah R. Vargas (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816673179\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 16 October 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"With \u003ci\u003eDissonant Divas\u003c\/i\u003e, Deborah R. Vargas makes us the gift of a more vibrant and expansive soundscape for hemispheric cultural studies. By broadening and interrogating the archive of Mexican and Mexican American popular music, Vargas restores a pantheon of Mejicana recording artists to their place at the center of a musical scene where artists contested the boundaries of gender, sex and nation through innovative performance and subversive self-styling. Like the music it so artfully engages, \u003ci\u003eDissonant Divas\u003c\/i\u003e is a landmark text, beautifully conceived and written, with much to offer a wide range of audiences.\"-Alicia Schmidt Camacho, Yale University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This arrival is at a keen theory of musical dissonance, not unlike many of the culturally entwined elevations already in your own music collection. \u003ci\u003eDissonant Divas\u003c\/i\u003e is high quality feminist academic scribing, worth it alone for turning the unfamiliar on to the bold, bawdy boleros of Chado Silva, but has much else to offer as well.\"-KEXP Radio\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Vargas’s sustained engagement of race, class, gender, and sexuality with Chicana\/o borderlands music is thoroughly new.\"-\u003ci\u003eSounding Out!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Professor Vargas provides a new lens into the identities and histories that emerge from the new cultural space Anzaldua referred to as the borderlands.\"-\u003ci\u003eNew Books Network\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"An accessible and thought-provoking project seeking not only a space and recognition for these musicians without a Mexican-American sonic landscape, but also creating a site for the emergence of alternative genealogies and topographies.\"-\u003ci\u003eLatino Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eDissonant Divas,\u003c\/i\u003e Deborah Vargas examines the lived experiences, musical contributions, and performative transgressions that led a select group of women to not only break new ground as artists and reimagine largely male-dominated canons of Chicano, Tejano and Mexicano popular music styles, but to challenge dominant notions of sound, visibility and integration.\"-\u003ci\u003eEthnomusicology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMusical 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.” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDissonant Divas in Chicana Music\u003c\/i\u003e 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; geography as national border, explored through the multiple national music scales negotiated by Eva Garza; and racialized gender, viewed through Selena’s integration of black diasporic musical sound. Vargas offers a feminist analysis of these figures’ contributions by advancing a notion of musical dissonance-a dissonance that recognizes the complexity of gender, sexuality, and power within Chicana\/o culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIncorporating ethnographic fieldwork, oral history, and archival research, Vargas’s study demonstrates how these singers work together to explode the limits of Texan, Chicano, Tejano, Mexican, and American identities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Music, Mejicanas, and the Chicano Wave\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Forgetting the Alamo, Remembering Rosita Fernandez\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. Borders, Bullets, Besos: The Boleros of Chelo Silva\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. TexMex Conjunto Accordion Masculinity: The Queer Discord of Eva Ybarra and \u003cbr\u003eVentura Alonzo\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. Sonido de Las AmÉricas: Crossing South–South Borders with Eva Garza\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5. Giving Us That Brown Soul: Selena's Departures and Arrivals\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEpilogue: The Borderlands Rock Reverb of Gloria Rios and Girl in a Coma\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003ePermissions\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52570079002904,"sku":"9780816673179","price":18.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/dissonant-divas-in-chicana-music-the-limits-of-la-onda-paperback-softback-9780816673179","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}