Dissonant Divas in Chicana Music

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Author: Deborah R. VargasISBN: 9780816673179Publisher: University of Minnesota PressYear first published: 16 Oct 2012Pages: 288 Format: Paperback / softbackMusical sound has been c entral 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 stimulateour listening for alternative borderlands imaginaries that are inaudible within the limits of 'la onda'. Show more