The Chicano Movement
How did the Chicano music affect the Chicano Movement?
How did the music come to be?
The majority of the Chicano music supported the Chicano movement to gain protesters, also the Chicano music expanded and made big hits. The Chicano music became a great tool that Cesar Chavez thought would be useful for the Chicano Civil Right Movement.
El picket sign
Lyrics
"The picket sign, the picket sign… And now organizing the workers in all of the fields And now organizing the workers in all of the fields Because some only eat tortillas with nothing else but chiles" (1:57-2:27)
Niños campesinos
Lyrics
"About 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 o’clock in the morning The sun warms up wide ranches and bathes them all in light And to those fields only the scabs go Long live the strike!"
(1:32-!:52)
The Chicano music has different genres affecting the instruments well known instruments are guitar, trumpet, and accordion.
An example is In the 1950s the use of electric guitars, drums, and elements of rock and jazz.
Ritchie Valens - La Bamba
A high-energy reworking of an old Mexican wedding song, its driving simplicity foreshadowed garage-rock, frat-rock and punk-rock. Ironically, “La Bamba” was the B-side of “Donna,” a paean to Valens’ girlfriend that rose to #2 on Billboard’s singles chart.
Lalo Guerrero No Way, Jose
(1:05-1:25)
The artist Lalo Guerrero first developed in the spanish music industry then went to english believing he could make it but end going back to Chicano music where he gained more fans afterwards.
Daniel Valdez - América de los Indios
The Chicano music has similar meaning to Civil rights movement for African Americans music, because both fight for the races citizenship. The Chicano music has changed over time, because the Chicanos have been counted for their citizenship and now the chicano music is a form to express the feelings someone has.