Straight Out the Barrio: Ozomatli and the Importance of Place in the Formation of Chicano/a Popular Culture in Los Angeles

Author: Hugo Viesca V.¹

Source: Cultural Values, Volume 4, Number 4, 1 October 2000 , pp. 445-473(29)

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

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Abstract:

Ozomatli's history of formation, the multiplicity of its sounds, the role played by its music in enabling political activism and political coalitions illuminate the relations between identities and politics at the present moment. The group is grounded in Los Angeles contemporary Chicano/a culture and in the new social relations, new knowledges, and new sensibilities of an emerging global city in a transnational era. Speaking from the interstices between commercial culture and the new social movements, Ozomatli's music and political work offers us invaluable bottom-up perspectives on the terrain of counter-politics and cultural creation at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Language: English

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: New York University

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