Beginning in the 1970s Chicana and Chicano organizers turned to
community radio broadcasting to educate, entertain, and uplift
Mexican American listeners across the United States. In rural
areas, radio emerged as the most effective medium for reaching
relatively isolated communities such as migrant farmworkers. And in
Washington's Yakima Valley, where the media landscape was dominated
by perspectives favorable to agribusiness, community radio for and
about farmworkers became a life-sustaining tool. Feminista
Frequencies unearths the remarkable history of one of the United
States' first full-time Spanish-language community radio stations,
Radio KDNA, which began broadcasting in the Yakima Valley in 1979.
Extensive interviews reveal the work of Chicana and Chicano
producers, on-air announcers, station managers, technical
directors, and listeners who contributed to the station's success.
Monica De La Torre weaves these oral histories together with a
range of visual and audio artifacts, including radio programs,
program guides, and photographs to situate KDNA within the larger
network of Chicano community-based broadcasting and social movement
activism. Feminista Frequencies highlights the development of a
public broadcasting model that centered Chicana radio producers and
documents the central role of women in developing this
infrastructure in the Yakima Valley. De La Torre shows how KDNA
revolutionized community radio programming, adding new depth to the
history of the Chicano movement, women's activism, and media
histories.
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