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Love Army
The band Love Army was a Mexican rock band that emerged from “Chicano Wave” (La Onda Chicana in Spanish) in the early 1970s. The band Love Army derived from the Tijuana Five and was formed by Alberto Isordia ({{aka El Pajaro), Salvador Martinez, Jaime Valle (a.k.a. El Perro), Fernando Vahaux, Ernesto Hernandez (a.k.a. El Blu), Mario Rojas (a.k.a. El Muerto), Enrique Sida and Chuy Sida. Background In the late 1960s a wave of Mexican rock heavily influenced by jazz-rock and funk rock emerged in several northern border Mexican states, in particular in Tijuana, Baja California. This coalesced into the musical/cultural movement known as La Onda (The Wave). Love Army in the early 1970s Caminata Cerebral Caminata Cerebral written and arranged by Jaime Valle (a.k.a. El Perro), trombonist Enrique Sida, and vocalist Alberto Isordia (a.k.a. El Pajaro) reflected the state of the Mexican counterculture and the position of the Mexican youth against the government of that time. It was also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Onda Chicana
''La Onda'' (The Wave) was a multidisciplinary artistic movement created in Mexico by artists and intellectuals as part of the worldwide waves of the counterculture of the 1960s and the avant-garde. Pejoratively called as ''Literatura de la Onda'' by Margo Glantz in the beginning, the movement quickly grew and included other art forms with its followers called "onderos", "macizos" or "jipitecas". La Onda encompassed artistic productions in the worlds of Cinema of Mexico, cinema, literature, visual arts and music and strongly addressed social issues of the time such as women's rights, ecology, spirituality, artistic freedom, Legalization of drugs, open drug use and democracy in a country tightly ruled by the PRI (Mexico), PRI. According to Mexican intellectual Carlos Monsiváis, ''La Onda'' was "a new spirit, the repudiation of convention and prejudice, the creation of a new morality, the challenging of proper morals, the expansion of consciousness, the systematic revision and criti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |