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Chicana Traditions: Continuity and Change

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Description for Chicana Traditions: Continuity and Change Paperback. An anthology focusing specifically on the topic of Chicana expressive culture. This book features the work of native scholars. Blending narratives of personal experience with more formal, scholarly discussions, it tells the insider story of a professional woman mariachi performer. Editor(s): Cantu, Norma E.; Najera-Ramirez, Olga. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 422.

Chicana Traditions features essays from professionals engaged with a broad and ever-expanding Chicana expressive culture. Professors and students, performing artists and folklorists, and archivists and activists merge personal experience with formal discussion to share fascinating inside stories. The topics include a professional woman mariachi performer; the creation and evolution of the escaramuza charra (all-female precision riding team) within the male-dominated Mexican rodeo; the ranchera music of the transnational performer Lydia Mendoza, the complex crossover of Selena's Tejano music, and the bottle cap and jar lid art of Goldie Garcia. 

An eye-opening journey through a borderland where cultures and identities converge, Chicana Traditions reveals how Chicanas continue ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252070129
SKU
V9780252070129
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Cantu
Norma E. Cantú is a professor emerita of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She is the author of Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera and coeditor of meXicana Fashions: Politics, Self-Adornment, and Identity Construction. Olga Nájera-Ramírez is a professor of anthropology at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She is the author of La Fiesta de los Tastoanes: Critical Encounters ... Read more

Reviews for Chicana Traditions: Continuity and Change
Winner of the Susan Koppelman Award given by the Joint Women's Caucus of the Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association, 2003.  A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2003. "A fascinating read which spans the gap between Chicana literary and art criticism."
Enrique R. Lamadrid, author of Nuevo México Profundo "Those who want to avoid the cliches of tradition vs. modernity ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Chicana Traditions: Continuity and Change


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