Chicana Traditions - 9780252070129

Chicana TraditionsContinuity and Change\nAuthor(s): Norma E. Cantu, Olga Njera-Ramrez\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252070129, 978-0252070129\nSynopsis\nChicana Traditionsfeatures 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 theescaramuza 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.\n\nAn eye-opening journey through a borderland where cultures and identities converge,Chicana Trad.