A Brief Summary Of The Chicano Wave

The documentary titled “The Chicano Wave” was very effective in displaying its theme and the goals/intentions it wanted to complete. The main theme one could identify could be the theme of using music in order to express oneself and one’s opinions. This is evident during the civil rights movement when bands, such as Little Joe and the Latinaires, used their music to express their problems with the then-current race issues. But instead of being pessimistic about the situation, they sing songs about being hopeful, while still pushing a specific agenda. But there were still many more singers who sang about their opinions during different eras and about many different issues. At first, there were Mexican-American singers who had to change their name due to the existing racism in the United States. One of these examples is Ritchie Valens, who changed his name from Richard Valenzuela. Most of the earliest Mexican-American rockstars came from very poverty stricken areas and from very little education due to them having to work very labor intensive jobs at a very young age. Like stated earlier, the earliest Latin musicians did not play a lot of music of their ancestry due to this racism. Therefore, a lot of early musicians would play

This can be connected to the main goal/intentions of the whole documentary. One could say the “Chicano Wave” is telling the story of how the Chicano movement of the 60s and 70s contributed to the evolution of Latin music. This can be found in both the term “Chicano” and the both the decades of the 60s and 70s. The term “Chicano” as explained in class is someone who is of Mexican descent and has a heightened political sense. This came about during the 60s and 70s as a result of the Civil rights movement. They even developed their own language called Calo, but I