Essay On Chicano Music

Many of these movements not only affected Chicano/as people but also affected the music. As historical forms, songs of the Chicano movement have assisted and will continue to assist as a historical lens through which familiar and non-familiar audiences can understand the revolutionary demands of Chicano community during the 1960s and the 1970s (Ramirez, 385). Many song lyrics disclose of topics of resistance and the journey for political justice. Chicano rock and roll musicians worked to stay away from single category genre by including rock, popular, folk, and ethnic music. While Chicanos were including different sounds of music together, the issue with identity was still present. Blending social, cultural, and political history was shown throughout the music. Chicano bands like the Brat, Odd Squad, and the Plugs had an influenced by the 1950’s style of music. The songs these bands expressed were speaking to the youth’s frustration and the feeling of hostility in the Unites States. As history repeats it’s self-new imagine of “pachucos” were consider as “cholo”. The youth of the cholo generation would also experience oppression and alienation as pachucos once did. The label of being a cholo would bring negative attention may …show more content…
Chicano/as are still dealing with the overwhelming process of “Americanization” and teaching into “American way of life ” (Marisol L., 355). Until this day, Chicano/as realities are coping with racial and class oppression shown in many Chicano/as songs. Identity crisis is still present where Chicano/as youth are still trying to live double lives as a Mexican and an American. The music that developed because of pachuco and Mexican-American youth culture still exists 50 years later. Chicano/as musicians are not only representing the people but are expressing the true essence of survival and