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This study aims to present Chicana punk musician Alice Bag as one of the main female figures who exerted a great influence on the early punk scene of Los Angeles, California, and thus helped to pave the way for a wider influx of female musicians within punk and to put some feminist issues at the forefront. By doing so, we will try to broaden the social and cultural understanding of punk music. Both Bag's autobiography Violence Girl, From East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage (2011) and her last LP, self-titled Alice Bag (2016), cover relevant issues related to Chicana women's condition, thus turning punk into a powerful platform to articulate feminist and ethnic concepts.
KEY WORDS: Alice Bag, Chicano, punk, feminism.
El objetivo de este trabajo es presentar a la música chicana Alice Bag como una de las figuras influyentes en la temprana escena punk de Los Ángeles, California, quien ayudó a abrir el camino a una afluencia mayor de mujeres en la música punk, poniendo así algunos temas feministas en primera línea. De este modo, trataremos de ampliar el ámbito de estudio del punk. Tanto su autobiografía Violence Girl, From East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage (2011) y su casi recién estrenado LP Alice Bag (2016) abarcan temas relacionados con la condición de las mujeres chicanas, convirtiendo al punk en una poderosa plataforma de la que se ayuda para articular conceptos feministas y étnicos.
Palabras clave: Alice Bag, chicano, punk, feminismo.
From where I stand, punk is about challenging the status quo, not reinforcing it. I don't want to knock the contributions of white males, I just want to see parity.
-Alice Bag (2014)
The notion that punk music is a masculinized category where gender roles come pre-packaged and always already intensely distinct can be considered up for debate. The number of women getting involved in the production, creation and diffusion of punk music, whether as singers, songwriters, instrumentalists or sound assistants is significant enough to affirm that women have played -and still play- an important role in punk music. However, it could be maintained that when punk music began to get some recognition in academia it was still understood as a predominantly male genre -individual men and all-male bands were the main...