Monica De La Torre, Author at Current

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Rewind: The Roots of Public Media

How a Chicana-run community radio station changed the ‘cultural soundscape’ of public broadcasting

By Monica De La Torre, Assistant Professor (Arizona State University) | April 17, 2023

“Chicanas who stepped up to the microphone for the first time were not only hearing their own voices audibly broadcasted over public airwaves, they also were announcing the arrival of a sonically distinct Chicana public sphere.”

Rewind: The Roots of Public Media

Looking back on the lesser-known histories of ‘Chicano Public Radio’

By Dolores Inés Casillas, Associate Professor (University of California, Santa Barbara) and Monica De La Torre, Assistant Professor (Arizona State University) | July 11, 2019

A group of bilingual radio stations founded in the late 1970s “helped distinguish Spanish-language and bilingual broadcasting as a form of advocacy.”