Title Feminista frequencies : community building through radio in the Yakima Valley / Monica De La Torre

Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 144 pages) : illustrations Series Decolonizing feminisms Decolonizing feminisms. Contents Introduction. Listening to Feminista Frequencies -- 1. The Roots of Radio Cadena: Chicana/o Community Formations in the Pacific Northwest -- 2. Brotando del Silencio (Emerging from Silence): Chicana Radio Praxis in Community Public Broadcasting -- 3. Radio Rasquache: DIY Community Radio Programming Aesthetics -- EPILOGUE. Channeling Chicana Radio Praxis Today Summary "Beginning in the 1970s Chicana and Chicano organizers turned to community radio broadcasting to educate, entertain, and uplift Mexican American listeners across the United States. In rural areas, radio emerged as the most effective medium for reaching relatively isolated communities such as migrant farmworkers. And in Washington's Yakima Valley, where the media landscape was dominated by perspectives favorable to agribusiness, community radio for and about farmworkers became a life-sustaining tool. Feminista Frequencies unearths the remarkable history of one of the United States' first full-time Spanish-language community radio stations, Radio KDNA, which began broadcasting in the Yakima Valley in 1979. Extensive interviews reveal the work of Chicana and Chicano producers, on-air announcers, station managers, technical directors, and listeners who contributed to the station's success. Monica De La Torre weaves these oral histories together with a range of visual and audio artifacts, including radio programs, program guides, and photographs to situate KDNA within the larger network of Chicano community-based broadcasting and social movement activism. Feminista Frequencies highlights the development of a public broadcasting model that centered Chicana radio producers and documents the central role of women in developing this infrastructure in the Yakima Valley. De La Torre shows how KDNA revolutionized community radio programming, adding new depth to the history of the Chicano movement, women's activism, and media histories"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 21, 2022) Subject Community radio -- Washington (State) -- Yakima River Valley -- History -- 20th century Community development -- Washington (State) -- Yakima River Valley Feminism -- Washington (State) -- Yakima River Valley Mexican Americans. Mexican Americans SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies Community development Community radio Feminism Mexican Americans Washington (State) -- Yakima River Valley Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2021015706 ISBN 9780295749686 0295749687

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