PP&D 177 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Npr Music, Teatro Campesino, La Santa Cecilia
1 Jun 2018
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4/19/2018
Lecture 3:
Cannibal and The Headhunters brief discussion:
• Popular Chicano group in mid-60s, musical iconic group, (exception of one, Rabbit)
Ramona Garden Projects
• Rented Lincoln Park gym to perform for 3 hours
• Professor’s mother did not want him to be friends with “Rabbit” (because he was a cholo,
looked bad, was not though)
• ‘64: Professor was teenager, the group performed, opened for the Beatles in Dodger
Stadium
• In LA, dance programs were often on TV and this group (Cannibal and the Headhunters)
had two hits
• Lead singer had AIDS, died
• Low level gigs
• Peak on national TV
• Cultural music scene of East LA Mexicans depicted by this band
• Toured with Beatles, R&B groups
• Tiny Desk Concert: La Santa Cecilia
Required Reading Review: (red stuff on exam)
• Luis Valdez - founder, director of El Teatro → set a foundation/high standard for Latino-
America theatre
• Theatro has its origin in Delano, the Great Boycott, Cesar Chavez, UFW
• The company created and performed “actos”/short skits
• Used to perform on flatbed trucks, union halls, fields
• Taking the actos on tours to dramatize the flight of farmworkers
• Honored in 1969 with the OBE award
• In 1971, company moved from Delano to San Juan Bautista
• 1976, launched a European tour
• Big break: 1977; when the Rockefeller foundation granted them/Luis Valdez money to
create Zoot Suit play
• 1986: theatre Campesino, worked together with LA theatre -- to play “I do not have to
show no stinking badges”
o Critical, successful acclaim for 6 months
• People did not think Mexicans were sophisticated enough to appreciate theatre
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