Martha González: “Chican@ Artivistas.” 

TUESDAY, JANUARY 20
PROGRAM #11024 11:00 AM PT

Martha González: “Chican@ Artivistas.” 

This is a conversation with Martha González, a key figure at the intersection of art, music, and Chicano critical thought, centered on her new book “Artivistas Chican@s.” Her trajectory weaves feminist scholarship with musical practice as a singer and percussionist for Grammy Award–winning band Quetzal, a defining force in California’s Chicano music scene. From both academia and the stage, González—alongside Quetzal Flores—has fostered a transnational dialogue between Chican@ communities and jarocho musicians in Veracruz, where music becomes a tool for memory, resistance, and cultural transformation. This program is part of the special series “Thirty Years, Thirty Voices.”

Guest: Martha González, master musician, academic researcher, author of “Artivistas Chican@s: Music, Community, and Transborder Tactics in East Los Angeles,” Los Angeles, CA.

Photo: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation/Wikipedia

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