Feminista Frequencies

Community Building through Radio in the Yakima Valley

Monica de De La Torre, Piya Chatterjee

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English

University of Washington Press
05 April 2022

Radio; History of the Americas; Social & cultural history; Gender studies: women; Local history

Series: Decolonizing Feminisms

Beginning in the 1970s Chicana and Chicano organizers turned to community radio broadcasting to educate, entertain, and uplift Mexican American listeners across the United States. In rural areas, radio emerged as the most effective medium for reaching relatively isolated communities such as migrant farmworkers. And in Washington's Yakima Valley, where the media landscape was dominated by perspectives favorable to agribusiness, community radio for and about farmworkers became a life-sustaining tool.

Feminista Frequencies unearths the remarkable history of one of the United States' first full-time Spanish-language community radio stations, Radio KDNA, which began broadcasting in the Yakima Valley in 1979. Extensive interviews reveal the work of Chicana and Chicano producers, on-air announcers, station managers, technical directors, and listeners who contributed to the station's success. Monica De La Torre weaves these oral histories together with a range of visual and audio artifacts, including radio programs, program guides, and photographs to situate KDNA within the larger network of Chicano community-based broadcasting and social movement activism. Feminista Frequencies highlights the development of a public broadcasting model that centered Chicana radio producers and documents the central role of women in developing this infrastructure in the Yakima Valley. De La Torre shows how KDNA revolutionized community radio programming, adding new depth to the history of the Chicano movement, women's activism, and media histories.

By: Monica de De La Torre
Series edited by: Piya Chatterjee
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 249g
ISBN: 9780295749662
ISBN 10: 0295749660
Series: Decolonizing Feminisms
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 05 April 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Monica De La Torre is assistant professor in the School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University.

Reviews for Feminista Frequencies: Community Building through Radio in the Yakima Valley

"""A significant contribution to the history of Latinas/os in the Pacific Northwest . . . Through interviews and available physical materials, De La Torre pieces together an archive with a captivating narrative that recovers herstories of Radio KDNA so that they can be heard and preserved."" * Pacific Northwest Quarterly (PNQ) *"