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    The History of Chicano Music My both my father and uncle were in their prime during the 1960s and 70s during the Chicano Movement. My father had me growing up listening to dedications Art Laboe ’s Killer Oldies every Sunday night. My uncle traveled throughout California with bands of his own since the 1970s. I grew up listening to musicians like El Chicano‚ Los Lobos‚ Little Joe y la Familia. I knew Chicano music. What is Chicano? During the Civil Rights movements of the 1960s and

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    Chicano Art

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    Chicano Art Chicano Art and Indigenismo Artworks have played an indelible work to the lives of humanity. The creative nature in Artists is a complex matter to define. The uncertainties in the intrinsic nature in art lay difficult aspects that can only be answered by values‚ themes and skills depicted in an artist artwork. Apart from playing the intricate psychological effect on humans‚ the artworks have been used as a tool of expression that has been revered and uniquely preserved for future generation

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    Chicano Theatre

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    Midterm Report THEATRE 100 Chicano Theatres Chicano Theatre is a relatively young genre of theatre in comparison to the traditional theatre that date back centuries. It was in the 1960’s that the term Chicano became prevalent in the United States. Chicano is used only of Mexican Americans‚ not of Mexicans living in Mexico. It was originally an informal term in English (as in Spanish)‚ and the spelling of the first recorded instance in an American publication followed the Spanish custom

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    The Chicano Movement

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    The Chicano Movement also known as El Movimiento played a major part in the American Civil Rights Movement. This movement began to take place in the 1960s and ended in the 1970s. The term "Chicano" was used as an insulting label for the children of Mexican migrants. In the 1960s the word "Chicano" came to be accepted as a symbol of self-determination and ethnic pride. Many groups came to be about with the word chicano. In order to effect social change‚ Chicanos felt it was necessary to enter politics

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    Chicano Movement

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    Books Azcona‚ Stevan Cesar. Movements in Chicano Music: Performing Culture‚ Performing Politics‚ 1965-1979. Austin: The University of Texas at Austin‚ 2008. McFarland‚ Pancho. Chicano Rap: Gender and Violence in the Postindustrial Barrio. 1st Ed. Austin: University of Texas Press‚ 2008. Pena‚ Manuel. The Mexican American Orquesta: Music‚ Culture and the Dialectic of Conflict. Austin: University of Texas Press‚ 1999. Quirarte‚ Jacinto. Chicano Art History: A Book of Selected Readings

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    The term Chicano was a word used as a derogatory remark to identify Mexican- Americans of low social class. It wasn’t until the 1960’s when the term Chicano became popular during the Chicano Movement. Chicano was mainly popular among students who performed walkouts‚ teachers‚ and farm workers. It was until then that Mexican- Americans took pride of the term that was once a negative remark. Till this day‚ Mexican- Americans have many alternative identification terms they could adopt like; Hispanic

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    The Chicano Identity

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    The Chicano Identity The majority of people around us have parents with histories beyond our local area. They come from places hundreds of miles away‚ such as China‚ Japan‚ Korea‚ Vietnam‚ and even Mexico. As they set to live in America‚ they give birth to a new generation and these children are raised differently with a whole new standard. These standards are different from other countries whether it’s their educational system‚ laws‚ or social behaviors. This causes heritages to become diluted

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    Chicano Chicano art started in Mexican American communities within sustain of the civil rights society‚ suitable a national art progress with global span which includes CARA exhibition‚ Los fours and the other exhibitions. The appearance‚ institutional carry out the ritual though innovation‚ mythic construct; political and civilizing engagement. During the 1960’s there was a lot going on the world‚ not only did Chicano had to stand up for them. They wanted to find ways to express Chicanos‚ in searching

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    Chicano Arts Movement

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    2013 Chicano Art Movement As artists began to actively participate in the efforts to redress the plight of Mexicans in the United States‚ there emerged a new iconography and symbolic language which not only articulated the movement‚ but became the core of a Chicano cultural renaissance. (Venegas) Chicano Art developed in the 1960s during the political eruption of the civil rights movements in the United States. This renaissance in the arts was in fact the birth and flowering of a Chicano world

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    Critique With the start of the Chicano Movement‚ not only did the rebellious youth of the 20th century create a drastic change in the connotations associated with Mexican-Americans but they also sculpted‚ painted‚ sang and danced to form a cultural identity unique and distinctly their own. Mainly focusing on Southern California during the 1940’s to the present‚ Chicano Art took its roots from Mexican painters like Rivera‚ Siqueiros‚ and Viramontes. The struggle for a Chicano identity‚ one that was not

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