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Feast your ears gente! 


Beyoncé Irreplaceable (Irreemplazable) [Nortena Remix]

Wow! Top Ten Moments in Latina/o Popular Culture: Number 1 | Selena, LIVE, Disco-Medley: I Will Survive/Talk about it/Funkytown/Last Dance/The Hustle/On The Radio

Thanks to Sara Inés Calderón of NEWSTACO for sharing this classic xicanosmotic video of Chicana superstar/martyr SELENA doing an all-out Discogasmic medley, live, in concert in "Houston, Texas, Mexico" (as she shouts out during the video, shot in the Astrodome in 1995)...   A top ten moment in Chicana/o popular culture, to be sure!

The Hours, ALI IN THE JUNGLE, and Django Rheinhardt...

repost...original posting, december 2009...

The Hours "Ali In The Jungle" music video - Directed by Jonas Odell from FilmTecknarna on Vimeo.

Kiss Beethoven to make THE HOURS song start or just click the video below for DJANGO RHEINHARDT's latest...

Ximena Sariñana

Blogger Cruz Medina left a comment on an older posting on Julieta Venegas that merits its own posting...

I just stumbled on to Ximena Sariñana and thought of this exchange. You can check out Ximena's site http://www.ximenamusic.com/ which is more prominently displaying her recent English cross over, but she's also got one called "Mediocre" on youtube that's bien suave:

Xicanosmosis, Italian American Style!

Shakira, Ph.D. {update with new LOCA video}

update: October 2010



update | October 2009

A quick update to a posting below from 2007 focusing on the talented intellectual/pop-phenom Shakira; it struck me as an atrocity not to showcase her brilliantly xicanosmotic, colombiandesOsmotic, talents here on the galleryblog!

While the Guy Bourdin meets Helmut Newton (meets Robert Palmer channeling Terence Donovan) aesthetic might not be to everyone's taste, the ongoing Ovid-like metamorphoses of Shakira's career are fun to watch!

Shakira - Las De La Intuicion

original post 9/14/07

As a whole generation of young women (and young men for that matter) writhe and recoil at the spectacles of Britney Spears, Jessica Simpson, et al--poster-children for a politico-aesthetics of stupidity, mindless vacuity, and corrupt venal narcissism, it is simply breathtaking to witness the quiet, intellectual curiosity of Shakira, aka Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll , revealed in this story on the Associated Press wire. Other venues have documented this Latina's difference from the throng of young starlets all too eager to flash en route to their flash in the pan futures. Given the historic function of Latina bombshells in American mass culture, Ms. Mebarek Ripoll's intellectual wanderlust may rightly be read as performance art with Derridean traces. If you know the Colombian superstar, tell her the MA and MFA programs at SDSU would love to have her!

UPDATE | October 20, 2009

Albums and Tacos! A Bizarre Tumblr!

Thanks! I think! to artist David McHank for the headsup
to this trough of Tacomusical delight!

Jewish/Latino|a Legacies! Música, Música...

Hip Hop Hoodios! Jewish Mexican Xicanosmosis or Hip Hop in a Sombrero (Wearing a Yarmulke)

This posting is a shoutout and a riposte to my good friend Leon Lanzbom, who wails that the Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog gives short shrift to the daughters and sons of Israel!  Check it out:

• LATIN HIP-HOP | SOURCE

HIP HOP HOODIOS

Carne Masada: Quite Possibly the Very Best of the Hip Hop Hoodios

Jazzheads

** ½

Hip Hop Hoodios is a Latino Jewish hip-hop group working triple cultural entendre wordplay (hoodios is for judios, Spanish for Jews). Which should make it just a novelty act, except the music is good, the rhymes rock and it's passionate (if often silly) about the music. No, we can't get too serious about songs like Havana Nagila (with a Cuban Ahi Nama mix) or the klezmer-urban antics of K**e on the Mic (''My sound is fresh, like a pound of flesh''). But we sure can enjoy them. And hey, with Hoodios working a fourth ``best of'' release already, we may no longer be able to ignore the power of Latin-Jewish-urban culture.

The Hoodios are Josh ''Josue Norek'' Norek and Abraham Velez, both of whom work in the Latin alternative music biz -- ergo illustrious guests from Ozomatli, Delinquent Habits, The Klezmatics, and others who pump up Hoodios' musical chops. Juan Caipo of Orixa helps make Ocho Kandelikas into a ska punk Hanukkah breakdown, and there's some real Cuban swing -- and sharp rhyming from Kemo the Blaxican of Habits and Wil-Dog of Ozomatli -- on Viva la Guantanamera, an attack on the Cuban prison.

Hoodios show its conscience in songs like Guantanamera and Agua Pa' La Gente, about the corporate theft, um, buy-up of water rights in Latin America. But they're at their best with gleefully cheesy, sleazy, cliché-takeback songs like D---s & Noses (``You like our [bleep] and you like our noses, you see a Jewish guy and you forget where your clothes is'').

Oh, and if you're disappointed, the Hoodios are offering the ''First Ever Reverse Madoff Digital Money Back Guarantee.'' Anyone who doesn't like Carne Masada can send in their sales receipt for a full refund. How's that for messing with cultural stereotypes?

-- JORDAN LEVIN

jlevin@MiamiHerald.com

Loco Josh Kun Again from the NY Times on Los Pikadientes de TJ

David Hidalgo on How Will the Wolf Survive

RNC and Rage Against the Machine

Chicanodom is witnessing a positive perfect storm what with the reconciliation of Cheech and Chong AND Rage Against the Machine! Here's a posting (thanks to Cory at BoingBoing) of Rage's latest a capella agitation!

El Vez Sighting!

Just one of the cool polaroids to be found at the day19 project! Thanks again to the one and only Michael Wyatt "Coke Can" Harper!

XicanOsmosis, Gilbert Hernandez and Frida Kahlo

UPDATED: original post, October 23, 2007

One of my favorite chapters to write in Tex[t]-Mex has gotten short shrift in this Galleryblog, Chapter Five, "XicanOsmosis: Frida Kahlo and Mexico in the Eyes of Gilbert Hernandez." This is the place in the book where the focus zoom out OFF of the pathologically mangled figuration of "Mexicans" by U.S. mass culture ONTO Latino 'self' figuration--here, a Chicano illustrator and writer, Gilbert Hernandez conjuring an illustrated biography of Frida.

The original version of this chapter was published by New York University Press in Michelle Habel-Pallan's and Mary Romero's Latino/a Popular Culture. A massive pdf of the original essay, revised and extended for the UT Press book, appears here.

I recently ran across the cool compilation of newsreel and home videos of Kahlo, with Diego as well in some shots (the cad!), and thought I would share them here:



Here, as well, are three illustrated pages from the NYUPress edition of the essay:













POSTSCRIPT

I have not always been kind in these pages to Kahlo biopic that Salma Hayek starred in, based largely on the noteworthy if too earnest Hayden Herrera biography of Frida Kahlo--Diego's Movidas is my alternative title for the movie. But critics can change their tune when they get fish-slapped in the face with new evidence. With that, a behind-the-scenes video on the music in Kahlo that has me rethinking elements of my reading of Julie Taymor's film: