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Feminista Frequencies: Community Building Through Radio in the Yakima Valley

Name: Feminista Frequencies: Community Building Through Radio in the Yakima Valley
Brand: University of Washington Press
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Contributors:

Monica de la Torre, Piya Chatterjee (Editor)

Publisher:

University of Washington Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Social Science, History

Book Subcategory:

Ethnic Studies, United States, Women's Studies

Book Topic:

American, State & Local

Series:

Decolonizing Feminisms

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Release Date:

2022-04-05

ISBN 13:

9780295749662

Weight:

0.48 lbs

Size:

8.90 x 5.90 x 0.70 inches

Pages:

176

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How Chicana and Chicano community radio strengthened a movement and transformed the airwaves

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.

About the Author

Monica De La Torre is assistant professor in the School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University.

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