Ranchera

struggles are voiced throughout the stories “Unruly Passions” by Olga Najera Ramirez, and “Xicana Codex” by Cherrie Moraga. Both of the readings address their struggles in forms of media/art. In “Unruly Passions,’’ Ramirez explains the importance of Ranchera music to the Latina feminist movement. She informs the reader that these emotional songs often are disguised as metaphors for bigger things, such as feminism, sexual relations, and even Mexico being taken away from them. This music…

openers, colanders, dishers, ect. While mexican is more of molacahes, tortillero or comals. Some examples of Tex-mex restaurants in Indiana are Roscoe’s Tacos, Abuelo’s Mexican restaurants, and On The Border Mexican Grill and Cantina. Fiesta Ranchera, Anaya’s Mexican restaurant, and Margarita US 31 Mexican restaurant are examples of authentic mexican restaurant. Now you know the…

reconnected and consequently we would visit each other at family reunions more often. This is where I got reconnected with the music that I heard when I was little. The music my cousin played was Norteñas(named for the Northern region of Mexico)and Rancheras on the accordion. In recent years, I have had a strong interest in the music…

A term that is widely used by many people in the world today, but is highly inaccurate, is the phrase “Caribbean/Latin Music”. The Caribbean is a large part of the world with many island nations within it, and within these island nations there are even more music genres. When someone says “Caribbean Music,” it is impossible to tell if they are talking about Merengue from the Dominican Republic, Ska from Jamaica, Salsa from Cuba, Reggaeton from Puerto Rico, or the many other types of music genres…

different cultures and different styles of television that she might not be familiar with. Ronca de Oro provides my mother with an outlet to reminisce over her youth in Colombia. Set in Colombia during the 1950s, it follows the life of Colombian ranchera singer Helenita Vargas. Vargas wanted to be a rising star in a time where sexism, machismo and heteronormativity was highly prevalent in Colombian society. Despite dealing with domestic violence, public backlash by her family and poverty, Vargas…

Musse Mekonnen Professor Maltman ENG 1101 16 October 2, 2017 Chipotle Vs Qdoba One of the things that I’m very passionate about is Mexican food. Authentic or not, I can not go go a week without eating mexican food. Each week I’m faced with the question of which mexican restaurant should I go to? Chipotle or Qdoba? For obvious reasons, I have chosen to review chipotle against Qdoba and leave out places like Taco bell and Moe’s because they are not even close to compare due to low quality and…

Music is part of our lives, we listen to music all the time one way or another. Music can bring many kind of emotions and at times it reflects our feelings. But not only that, music is also really influential in many positive and negative ways. The kind of influence that I will be referring throughout this essay is the powerful influence music can bring to us in our understanding of race and ethnicity. This is call pop-culture “the entirety of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, images and other…

It is known throughout many communities that Latinos and Latinos are very zenophobic when it comes toward sexuality and gender roles. This feeling that comes to money of Spanish descent carried the same fears and disgusts due to the conditioning that was applied to them by their forefathers and foremothers. To help explain these reasons this essay will use Ramòn A. Gutierrez’s “A History of Latina/o Sexualities”, Robert Courtney Smith 's “Gender Strategies, Settlement, and Transnational Life In…

Spanish speaking countries have lots of cultural differences but music is a big key in cultural differences. There are twenty-one countries throughout the world that consider Spanish their official language. They include Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Spain, Uruguay and Venezuela. All of these countries have differences in the type of…

Supernatural folktales are very popular in this culture. Sihuanaba is the legend of a beautiful woman who had affairs with other men. When her husband discovered it, he put a curse on her. At first sight men will see Sihuanaba attracted, but afterwards she would horrible. Fiesta de la Rosa is a traditional celebration; in which Salvadoran celebrate the fifteen birthday of a young girl. The color pink is considered to be the color of the innocence of girlhood to woman hood. The celebration…