Justice Never Dies Lyric Video by Quetzal
Toro Ayotzinapa by Quetzal at the 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
Pillow People by Quetzal
Todo Lo Que Tengo (All That I Have) by Quetzal
Quetzal: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Chican@ Artivistas: Music, Community and Transborder Tactics in East Los Angeles

About Me

Greetings and welcome to my website! I am a Chican@ Artivsita, PhD, feminist music theorist and an Associate Professor in the Intercollegiate Department of Chicanx Latinx Studies at SCRIPPS/ Claremont Colleges. This website is designed to feature the different facets of my artistic, community, and academic work. Please look around and leave some feedback. Thank you for visiting!

Chican@ Artivistas: Music, Community and Transborder Tactics in East Los Angeles

My new book; Chican@ Artivista: Music, Community and Transborder Tactics in East Los Angeles will be out soon. Check out the blurb on UT Austin press (July 27th, 2020). As the lead singer of the Grammy Award–winning rock band Quetzal and a scholar of Chicana/o and Latina/o studies, Martha Gonzalez is uniquely positioned to articulate the ways in which creative expression can serve the dual roles of political commentary and community building. Drawing on postcolonial, Chicana, black feminist, and performance theories, Chican@ Artivistas explores the visual, musical, and performance art produced in East Los Angeles since the inception of NAFTA […]