Jarocho Elegua

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Title

Jarocho Elegua

Subject

Latin/x, performance, feminist, activist, woman filmmaker

Description

Gift from artist. The band's front-woman, Martha Gonzalez, is former colleague at the Claremont Colleces, and the music video is by my friend and fellow videomaker, Fatimah Tobing Rony. We are all feminist artist/scholars.

Creator

Quetzal, Martha Gonzalez

Date

2002

Coverage

Quetzal is an ensemble of highly talented musicians, joined for the goal of creating good music that tells the social, cultural, political, and musical stories of people in struggle. Martha Gonzalez (lead singer, percussionist, and songwriter) calls it an “East LA Chican@ rock group,” summing up its rootedness in the complex cultural currents of life in the barrio, its social activism, its strong feminist stance, and its rock and roll musical beginnings. Besides being a rock band, the group and its members participate in a much larger web of musical, cultural, and political engagement. --Martha Gonzalez

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Duration

4:32

Director

Boch, Hernandez & Fatimah Rony

URL

Listen on Youtube
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Player

Files

Citation

Quetzal, Martha Gonzalez, “Jarocho Elegua,” VHS Activism Archive , accessed March 13, 2026, https://activismvhs.omeka.net/items/show/683.

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