Chicana traditions : continuity and change / edited by Norma E. Cantú and Olga Nájera-Ramírez.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cantú, Norma E., 1947-

Nájera-Ramírez, Olga.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican American women--Social life and customs.

Mexican American women.

Mexican American women--Intellectual life.

Mexican American arts.

Mexican American women--Folklore.

Feminism--United States.

Feminism.

United States.

Genre:

Folklore.

Physical Description:

269 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2002]

Summary:

The first anthology to focus specifically on the topic of Chicana expressive culture, Chicana Traditions features the work of native scholars: Chicanas engaged in careers as professors and students, performing artists and folklorists, archivists and museum coordinators, and community activists. Blending narratives of personal experience with more formal, scholarly discussions, Chicana Traditions tells the insider story of a professional woman mariachi performer and traces the creation and evolution of the escaramuza charra (all-female precision riding team) within the male-dominated charreada, or Mexican rodeo. Other essays cover the ranchera (country or rural) 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.Framed by the Chicana feminist concept of the borderlands, a formative space where cultures and identities converge, Chicana Traditions offers a lively commentary on how women continue to invent, reshape, and transcend their traditional culture.

Contents:

Chicana life-cycle rituals / Norma E. Cantú

Art of the santera / Helen R. Lucero

The indita genre of New Mexico : gender and cultural identification / Brenda M. Romero

Danger! children at play : patriarchal ideology and the construction of gender in Spanish-language Hispanic/Chicano children's songs and games / María Herrera-Sobek

Caminando con la llorona : traditional and contemporary narratives / Domino Renee Pérez

Indianizing Catholicism : Chicana/India/Mexicana indigenous spiritual practices in our image / Yolanda Broyles-González

Las que menos quería el niño : women of the Fidencista movement / Cynthia L. Vidaurri

Transgressing the taboo : a Chicana's voice in the mariachi world / Leonor Xóchitl Pérez

Meeting la cantante through verse, song, and performance / Cándida F. Jáquez

Ranchera music(s) and the legendary Lydia Mendoza : performing social location and relations / Yolanda Broyles-González

Mounting traditions : the origin and evolution of la escaramuza charra / Olga Nájera-Ramírez

Cruzando frontejas : remapping Selena's Tejano music "crossover" / Deborah R. Vargas

Goldie Garcia : la reina de South Broadway y rasquache / Tey Marianna Nunn.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-257) and index.

ISBN:

0252027019

0252070127

OCLC:

46991644