Loca Motion: The Travels of Chicana and Latina Popular Culture

Michelle Habell-Pallan

Published by New York University Press 2005

Loca Motion

The Travels of Chicana and Latina Popular Culture

Michelle Habell-Pallan

https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814773406.001.0001

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2006 Honorable Mention for MLA Prize in US Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies
In the summer of 1995, El Vez, the “Mexican Elvis,“along with his backup singers and band, The Lovely Elvettes and the Memphis Mariachis, served as master of ceremony for a ground-breaking show, “Diva L.A.: A Salute to L.A.’s Latinas in the Tanda Style.” The performances were remarkable not only for the talent displayed, but for their blend of linguistic, musical, and cultural traditions.
In Loca Motion, Michelle Habell-Pallán argues that performances like Diva L.A. play a vital role in shaping and understanding contemporary transnational social dynamics. Chicano/a and Latino/a popular culture, including spoken word, performance art, comedy, theater, and punk music aesthetics, is central to developing cultural forms and identities that reach across and beyond the Americas, from Mexico City to Vancouver to Berlin. Drawing on the lives and work of a diverse group of artists,Habell-Pallán explores new perspectives that defy both traditional forms of Latino cultural nationalism and the expectations of U.S. culture. The result is a sophisticated rethinking of identity politics and an invaluable lens from which to view the complex dynamics of race, class, gender, and sexuality.

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Habell-Pallan Michelle :

Michelle Habell-Pallán is an Associate Professor in the Women Studies Department at the University of Washington, Seattle. She is the co-editor with Mary Romero of Latino/a Popular Culture (NYU Press, 2002).

Reviews

Arlene Davila,author of Barrio Dreams:
Forget about Ricky Martin and Shakira, here come El Vez and Marga Gomez. Habell-Pallán has produced a highly original study of Chicano/Latino popular culture and of its local, national and international dimensions by taking us into the world of alternative and experimental Chicano/Latino art.

Lisa Lowe,UC San Diego:
Loca Motion is a work of intelligent exuberance. Michelle Habell-Pallán has the eyes, ears, and heart to read popular performance, culture, and music as the new archives of Chicana and Latina transnational and translocal histories.

Offers insight into the dynamics of race, class, gender and sexuality.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 From the Shadows of the Spanish Fantasy Heritage to a Transnational Imaginary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
2 “No Cultural Icon” Marisela Norte and Spoken Word— East L.A. Noir and the U.S./Mexico Border Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
3 The Politics of Representation: Queerness and the Transnational Family in Luis Alfaro’s Performance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
4 Translated/Translating Woman: Comedienne/Solo Performer Marga Gomez, “Sending All Those Puerto Ricans Back to Mexico,” and the Politics of a Sexualized Location Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
5 “¿Soy Punkera, Y Que?” Sexuality, Translocality, and Punk in Los Angeles and Beyond Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
6 Bridge over Troubled Borders: The Transnational Appeal of Chicano Popular Music Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Epilogue “Call Us Americans, ’Cause We Are All from the Américas”: Latinos at Home in Canada Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
About the Author Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	310

Language: English
Publisher: New York University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;

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Published: May 1, 2005
ISBN: 9780814773406