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In 1960s East Los Angeles, La Estrella de la Cancion Romantica
interpreted boleros and other music from the collective memory of
Mexico. Though an untrained, local artist, her musical performance
was as trans-racial, trans-class, trans-generational, and
trans-national as the most celebrated artists of the music of
latinidad. That stage of her artistic career would be key when she
later helped deconstruct the machismo that framed the mariachi
tradition, as a founding member of the first all-female mariachi
group, Las Generalas. Mucho Corazon, a biography/autoethnography
written by the protagonist's daughter, relates the life- and
performing stages of Aurora Prado Pastrano, who against
overwhelming odds, followed her heart to become a bolerista,
songwriter, and the first professional woman guitarron player in
United States history. Seamless storytelling advances the
long-neglected history of Chicana grassroots artists. Framed by
allusions to the music popular during her Texas-Mexican American
childhood, her young adult life in Mexico, to her artistic rise in
East Los Angeles, the story vividly exemplifies how gendered
subjectivity infuses public performance of what the author coins
"cultural music." This is a resource on regional history and its
music of the 1940s-1970s. Written for anyone interested in women's
participation in the production and performance of mariachi music
in the United States, Mexican, Mexican American, Chicano, and
Latino music, and the cultural history of the Southwest, it is
especially valuable to ethnomusicology, cultural studies, women's
history, women's and gender studies, Latinx studies, Chicanx
studies, cultural anthropology, ethnology, and sociology, and
accessible to levels from high school to higher education
professionals.
The Feminist Alliance Project in Appalachia: Minoritized
Experiences of Women Faculty and Administrators in Higher Education
illustrates the minoritized experiences of women faculty and
administrators in higher education and highlights Appalachia as a
geographic and cultural region, a sector in academia that still
remains relatively ignored in mainstream feminist studies. This
book is based on autobiographical and autoethnographic narratives
of diverse women who discuss their similar and unique forms of
oppression as students and as professionals in the academic
workplace within Appalachia. Their minoritized experiences
exemplify women's relational ties and the need for what the volume
editor Alicia Chavira-Prado names the Feminist Alliance Project.
Chavira-Prado calls for feminists to develop and enact an allied
feminism that transcends class, race, or other artificially
constructed borders and identities, as well as the specific
subjectivities that have separated feminist groups. The narratives
in The Feminist Alliance Project in Appalachia support the claim
that white and nonwhite women experience similar minoritization
within specific junctures of space, gender, and other identities.
They thus show the need to be allies in recognizing and opposing
all women's minoritization in order to end women's oppression. The
book is of interest to women's studies, Appalachian studies,
Latina/x studies, regional studies, American studies, critical
theory, cultural anthropology and ethnic studies, autoethnography
courses, sociology, philosophy, diversity and inclusion and human
resources professionals in higher education, and the general
public.
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