Art connoisseur to this beautiful movement we call CHICANO.
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I am still in awe of this amazing tattoo by @Saldamando for Marcus Kuiland-Nazario (someone I’ve always looked up to.) I can’t express how humbled and honored I am to have my image be a permanent part of Marcus’s body.
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A Riot of Our Own - Punk Concert Footage Screening in LA Feb 15th →
Trashing of the Troubadour and the Elks Lodge St. Patrick’s Day show. I want to clarify that as far as I know, there is no “riot” footage contained in any of the clips that will be shown. The films are of concert footage. So LAPD - stand down. ~ Alice
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Staff at Pier One asking “did she just rearrange our furniture to take her holiday photos? Yes, yes she did.
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I will be reading in Eagle Rock, CA at Occidental College THIS Wednesday, October 24th, 7:15pm, Fowler 302 Open to the Public!
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Tuesday, October 23, 3-5pm
at ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives
909 West Adams Boulevard
http://www.onearchives.org/
The USC CFR | Center for Feminist Research Working Group on
The Politics of Popular Music presents:
Violence Girl and the Past, Present and Future of Queer/Punk Rage
Punk feminist, educator and author Alice Bag discusses her acclaimed memoir, *Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage-A Chicana Punk Story,* with Raquel Gutierrez (performer, impresario, and author of “The Barber of East L.A.”), and Nikki Darling, (author and music writer, L.A. Weekly, The Los Angeles Times).
ABOUT CFR:
CFR’s New Directions in Feminist Research Seminar offers scholars an opportunity to work collectively on linked projects, while creating public events that engage the broader feminist community of faculty and students at USC. This year’s seminar is on “The Politics of Popular Music,” and explores pop—the catchy, crass, infectious mass idiom—that makes us dance, sing along, and purportedly abandon our cares. For generations, across national and regional boundaries, popular music has also functioned as a barometer of dissent; as a call to rebellion, action and revolution for the disenfranchised. Historically, popular music has not only scored, but also incited transformative movements like national revolutions, as well as feminist, civil rights, and queer rebellions. This seminar explores the full range of popular music’s political, aesthetic and affective incarnations, from its uses as a cultural imperialist medium, to its reclamation by communities for whom it may not be intended.
Seminar Members:
Karen Tongson, Director (English and Gender Studies, Dornsife)
Micha Cardenas (IMAP, School of Cinematic Arts)
Edwin Hill (Comparative Literature, Dornsife)
Kara Keeling (Critical Studies, School of Cinematic Arts; ASE, Dornsife)
Josh Kun (Communication, Annenberg; ASE, Dornsife)
Shana Redmond (ASE, Dornsife)
Mina Yang (Music, Thornton)
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Musician, writer, educator AND vagina-fascinator wearer!
Thrilled to be recognized as an Iconic Hispanic Angeleno. In History, no less!
http://www.kcet.org/socal/departures/landofsunshine/portraits/iconic-hispanic-angelenos-in-history-alice-bag.html
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CHICANO ART MOVEMENT visits: AAA ELECTRA 99 CO-OP GALLERY - PRESENTS: ALICE BAG - AUGUST 16, 2012
Alice doing a soundcheck
CAM:
On August 16 I took a trip out to Anaheim, California to see punk rock legend Alice Bag read from her book Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story, and to also watch this chicana rock goddess perform.
I was able to meet and chat with this influencal woman prior to her inspiring performance. One of the questions asked was what MEChA chapter was she from as a youth. As I miss read an older ineterview and thought she was a MEChA member. But, Alice told me “MEChA did not let me join because of the way I dressed.”
Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story.
BUY IT!
I first heard of this punker by the name of Alice Bag in the early 2000’s, but never had a chance to listen to her music until I came upon a website promoting the exhibition (I could no longer find website) ‘Vexing: Female Voices From East L.A. Punk’ traces the history and the legacy of a key era. That is when I went searching for The Bags music and came upon her song Violence Girl. The more I learned the more I was intriged about her and chicanos in punk. Having spent most of my time learning about the visual movement it was exciting to learn raza was involved in this music medium called “Punk Rock.”
Alice and her band pay tribute to punk rockers Pussy Riot
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One of the treats for me was when Alice did her soundcheck and covered Angel Baby by Rosie & The Originals. The intimate crowd stood up and took attention while this legend warmed up with an oldie but a goodie.
Having lured me in closer with a classic from the barrio, I found my way to a great spot close to the stage to watch this educator/feminist/writer, read excerpts from her autobiography and play some great tunes inbetween the excertps read of her book.
As she read from her book Violence Girl, I was able to learn about the many facets of this super mujer called, Alice Bag.
Alice Bag reading from the chapters of Violence Girl
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Prior to each song Alice played, the crowd and I were gifted with a story about chosen tune, and in one story the enamored crowd and I learned about her crushes on David Bowie and Elton John. That is when a punk cover of Elton John’s “Saturday Night’s Alright For Fightin,” was belted with such fireceness by this “Violence Girl”
After her performance Alice Bag did a Q&A, that is where I learned about the early days of Alice and the Bags. From why they performed with bags over their heads (equality), to her brief affiliation with the notorious Kim Fowley. I also learned on how their is no “official” Alice and the Bags studio album, only singles were released.
Punk Rock legend Alice Bag at her finest.
I would like to thank AAA ELECTRA 99 Gallery (phenomanal last event at Anaheim location) and the lovely Alice Bag for her performance, being awesome and inspriational. I purchased a book and poster at the event signed both by Alice for my collection.
I even was lucky enough to take a picture with this amazing Rocker.
Thank you Alice, ROCK ON!
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Tomorrow night at AAA Electra 99 Alice Bag will read from her book Violence Girl. There will be a small acoustic set afterwards. $5 to get in, don’t miss out!
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LA Chicano Punk | Scion iQ Project Museum →
LA Chicano Punk
It lasted for eight incandescent months. From March to November of 1980, in an unassuming upstairs hall of a community arts center in East Los Angeles, a unique convergence of art, music and youthful energy formed the flashpoint for L.A.’s Chicano Punk scene. Redubbed a club called The Vex, the hall was a place where local Latino kids in bands like The Plugz, Los Illegals and Thee Undertakers crafted a distinct take on punk rock and new wave, imbuing their sounds and styles with a distinct twist on East L.A. identity.
Music has always pumped through the working class, predominantly Latino neighborhoods east of the L.A. River. Unamplified mariachi bands led to breakout 1960s rock’n’rollers like Cannibal & The Headhunters (“Land of a Thousand Dances”) and Thee Midnighters (“Whittier Boulevard”), evolving further with the supercharged ‘70s soul sounds of El Chicano and Tierra. When Cannibal & The Headhunters were the opening act on The Beatles legendary 1965 U.S. tour, the connection between the British Invasion and American rock’n’roll reached an early apex.
As the 1970s hurtled towards it conclusion, intoxicating new sounds from England infiltrated Los Angeles. If kids could neither find nor afford records by bands like The Clash, The Slits, and The Damned, they could hear them late at night on Rodney Bingenheimer’s KROQ radio show. Mixed alongside New York bands like The Ramones and Blondie, this rebellious outside music held particular appeal to the young offspring of immigrants living in East L.A., themselves in search of a vehicle for self-expression.
In cramped garages and staid living rooms, hacking and dying their hair into punk coifs that contained mutated elements of slick pachuco styles, bands like The Gears, The Stains and The Brat were born. They played local parties, occasionally landing hard-to-find club shows, often sharing bills with tepid cover bands. What transformed a groundswell into an actual scene was a punk rock club of their very own.
A Franciscan nun named Sister Karen Boccalero ran Self-Help Graphics in a three-story building on Brooklyn Avenue in Boyle Heights. The upstairs hall was often rented out for weddings and birthday parties. A local muralist named Willie Herron and a beer distributor Joe Suquette decided it would be the perfect place for the upstart neighborhood bands to play. Sister Karen agreed they could rent the hall for that purpose, and on March 22, 1980, The Vex —its name derived from the word “vexation”—hosted its first show.
Bands like The Adolescents, Christian Death, and Wasted Youth soon came to play at the Vex. They may not have ventured into East L.A. under other circumstances. The pinnacle of this crossover was a celebratory occasion on May 11th, 1980 called The Punk Prom. Headlined by Hollywood punk legends X, the event featured musical support from the lounge act Hal Negro & The Satintones as well as what had been cheekily promoted as a “Vicious Dance Contest”.
A geographic and social divide had been bridged. It would lead to The Vex’s undoing.
In October, legions of burly interlopers descended on the venue to see a show by hardcore pioneers Black Flag. The resulting riot left the club shattered and shuttered. The Vex had lasted only eight months.
This exhibit presents a slice of the scene that found its locus at The Vex. Vintage club flyers, work by photographers including Ann Summa and Gary Leonard, as well as new video interviews with key players combine to reveal a vital story that still intrigues and inspires today.
CAM:
Click link above to watch all the videos.
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Los Illegals performing “El Lay” from “Internal Exile”, their debut album on A&M Records.Shot in Hollywood, California during filming for a TV pilot. Original group- Willie Herron, Jesus “Xiuy” Velo, Manuel and Tony Valdez, and Bill Reyes- are still together, working with their production company Vex A.D.. Enjoy.
LOS ILLEGALS - EL LAY 1982
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Here is ASCO founding member Willie Herron III with his punk band Los Illegals performing “El Lay.” You gotta love that 80’s look don’t you. That is Mr. Herron on vocals and on keyboard.
Source: youtube.com
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Here is Mariachi El Bronx paying its respect to the Los Angeles Mexican-American community by having Chicano great David Hildago of Los Lobos playing el acordeón during there “Norteno Lights” perfomance on Jimmy Kimmel Live in Los Angeles.
Source: abc.go.com
