Sound Recording Violeta Barrios was born in a small city near the Nicaraguan border with Costa Rica. Many would expect that coming from a Spanish-speaking country she would mostly enjoy Spanish records. However, because of her parents desire to master English she was sent abroad to study in San Antonio Texas, and then transferred to Blackstone College for Girls in Virginia. Violeta had seen her father play vinyl records in their house when she was little, but had no contact with it because she wasn’t interested. The first real experience she recalls is with her roommate in San Antonio. “Sarah,” she told me “had this fascination for vinyl records and possessed a large collection of them.” She was amazed at how her roommate had this ritual of pulling a record out of a sleeve and putting it on while focusing her attention on the act of listening for a side at a time, she really enjoyed the experience. We had a great relationship, and I started …show more content…
She was never restricted from listening any kind of music, and was rather encouraged to do music herself, so she learned how to play the piano. Before her father died, he left her a gramophone and all the records that he bought in Costa Rica. Radio For Violeta, the radio is a media outlet that reminds her of her mother. Although she rarely listened to shows, her mother did. When Frequency Modulated radio debuted, also did a mini series of stories by a Nicaraguan storyteller known as Fabio Gadea, his stories are still transmitted today. “I remember as if it was yesterday his stories. My mother would sit and listen.” My great grandmother’s reaction for the radio was funny, because she always lived in a small town, and she stared at the box wondering how was it possible that sound came from it. It was funny. On the other hand, Violeta remembers the technical problems with signals.
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, born as Juana Ramirez de Azbaje, is a well-known extraordinary figure from the colonial period. Sor Juana had a desire for education at such a young age. In the seventeenth century, it was the intellectual midpoint of Spanish colonial America. During this time Mexico City was politically and religiously the center of New Spain; the terrains went from California to Central America. In Latin American history the church and state defined women’s roles, which eventually change over time. Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz articulated her experiences though writing, she broke silence about racial and gender inequality, and her legacy remains today.
Helen Fabela Chavez’s parents were Mexican immigrants who worked as migrant farmers. At the age of seven, Helen started to work in the fields, and after her father died, she dropped out of high school to support her family. In 1948, Helen married a man named Cesar Chavez and moved to Delano, where they raised eight children.
SelenaBy: Aidan DoodyTopic 2 - Discrimination, Prejudice, and IdentityDiscuss the difficulties that Selena and her family faced after moving to the United States. What instances of discrimination or prejudice did Abraham, Selena, or the family face? How did this affect their identity as individuals and as a family? Did this cause their identity to change over time? If so, how? What challenges can you see for other immigrants in regards to maintaining the culture while adapting to a new one? Selena and her family had been discriminated against other people. One instance of this is when Selena and her family and Selena's friends started a club,
Have you set off for the coast of the Gulf of Mexico and a current pushed you all the way to the coast of Tampa bay, Florida? In 1528, a current pushed Cabeza De Vaca and 300 other men to southwest Florida. When they arrived cabeza ordered the 300 men to abandon the ships and go on the island and search for treasure. The men had to figure a way to travel to west Mexico from Tampa Bay, Florida. After months the goal was no longer colonization, it was survival. Cabeza De Vaca survived by developing surviving skills, getting resources, and meeting new people.
The journey of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca is single handedly one of the most breath taking feats of exploration in the Americas. He departed Spain as a member of a royal Spanish expedition in hopes to colonize the mainland of the Spanish called La Florida, present day Florida. As a treasurer, he was one of the chief officers on the Narvaez expedition. Cabeza de Vaca ultimately departed from Spain for the Americas on June 1527. (pbs.org) (Americanjourneys.org)
Hola mi amo Selena Quintanilla. Hello, my name is Selena Quintanilla. I was the first woman latin singer in Tejano, Mexico, and I was shot and killed by the president of my fan club. I was born in Lake Jackson, Texas. I was the youngest child of Marcella & Abraham Quintanilla. In the year 1980 my father opened a Tex-Mex restaurant at which we, his children, performed as a band for customers. Our band was named Selena Y Los dinos, slang for Selena and the Boys. I started playing at the restaurant at age 8, in 1982. My father moved the family from Lake Jackson to Corpus Christi after the restaurant failed. We released our first single under Freddie Records in Corpus Christi. Our first song was “Tu Eres” in the year 1983. I won the female vocalist and performer of the year award at the
When Cabeza de Vaca came to the "New World" he was just one of over 300 conquistadores led by Panphilo de Narvaez. They sailed to the New World and landed in Flordia. Struggling to find their way through the swamps and wetlands, their problems only increased when they were killed one-by-one by the Native American tribes (the Seminole tribes). Hoping to save their lives after running out of food, the conquistadores went back to the sea. However when they arrived they saw that their ships and commrades had assumed that they were dead and left to sail back to Spain.
Selena Quintanilla also known as the “ Mexican Madonna”. She was one of the greatest women singers loved worldwide. She started singing when she was young and started her singing career in her father restaurants and became too busy for school. Some of the genres of songs she liked to sing were Tejano, Mexican cumbia, and Mariachi. Another thing was that when she got murdered it had a great impact towards everyone that loved her. A great singer usually starts singing when they are little, and that is what Selenas dad made her do since she had such a amazing voice.
Selena Quintanilla-Pérez was a joyful, jubilant, free-spirited Mexican-American singer-songwriter. She grew up in Lake Jackson, Texas and made enormous contributions to the second wave of Tejano music, or la onda chicana (Chicano wave). The only difference between Tejano and Chicano music is that Tejano is the Spanish word for Texan and Chicano refers to Mexicans in general. The Tejano genre of music can also be referred to simply as Tex-Mex music. “All Tejano groups rely upon 3 common genres for their repertoires - polca-ranchera, the balada, and the cumbia” (Peña 185). Selena’s music uses all three sub-genres, as we shall see later on. In the second half of her life, Selena moved to Corpus Christi, TX where she stayed until her death. “Corpus
I dream about time travelling back into the Progressive Era, where I would witness first hand the hard work, patience, and dedication civil right advocates had as they fought against the injustice committed against them and participated in peaceful protests for what is right.
Bartolome de Las Casas was an important protector of native peoples because the latter part of his life was dedicated to social reforms that called for better treatment of the natives.
From his experience, he taught his two oldest children, A.B. III and Suzette, how to play the instruments. A.B. III learned how to play the bass guitar and Suzette played the drums. As Selena saw how attached Abraham was with A.B. III and Suzette, she became jealous and asked her father why she couldn’t learn how to play an instrument. He told her she was too young, so she started to sing.
Doris Horton Thurston, my seventy-five year old grandmother, has always had a song in her heart and on the edge of her tongue, waiting to flow over in a cascade of expression. She sees music as a connection to the world, a form that lets her reach outside of everyday life to different people, different cultures and different times. From generations before her and for generations to follow, from the memory of her mother's piano playing and her father's voice as a child to the orchestra concerts of her youngest grandchildren, she holds the connection to music close to her heart.
Jessie Lopez De La Cruz was born in Anaheim, California in 1919. She was abandoned by her father when she was 9 and lost her mother a few years later. She moved to live with her grandparents, she was raised by her grandmother after her grandfather died. She grew up traveling around to farm. Moving from places to places, spent most of her life working, she was in and out of school and only got to a sixth grade education. Later in her life, in 1938, she married her husband at the age of 19. From 1939-1947 she had six children, she lost a baby daughter to malnutrition, lack of adequate sanitation, and inferior health care. In her early forties, she found her life dramatically
The radio accommodated people’s desire to have fun by introducing them to a new entertainment experience. People could now listen to news, music, entertainment shows, and weather forecasts. Families would gather around the radio for night-time entertainment. (Radio in the 1920s) People would schedule their day-to-day activities around popular radio shows. Young individuals started to dance to the most current jazz music and ministers would broadcast their Sunday sermons to many listeners. (Radio Craze, Class Zone) The radio offered free entertainment in the home which was a blessing for the ill, the restricted, parents of small children, and those merely fatigued after a day's labor. Additionally, people were now able to share this source of entertainment with everyone. Radio “entertainment shows resembling vaudeville stage shows, short skits, and live comedy acts… (were) popular family entertainment.” (The history of radio and the 1920′s radio craze, 2011) However, radio had some ne...