Editing Chicano rock (section)

==Cultural politics of Chicano/a rock==
[[File:Go At it Now!.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Zack de la Rocha]] on stage with [[Rage Against the Machine]] in 2007.]]
Zacharias Manuel de la Rocha is an activist is best known as the vocalist and lyricist of rock band [[Rage Against the Machine]].
Rage Against the Machine songs express [[Political views and activism of Rage Against the Machine|revolutionary political views]]. As of 2010, they had sold over 16 million records worldwide.<ref name="WordPress">{{Cite web |last=Berdini |first=Valerio |date=June 9, 2010 |title=live on 35mm.Berdini,Valerio |url=http://liveon35mm.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/rage-against-the-machine |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718102220/http://liveon35mm.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/rage-against-the-machine/ |archive-date=July 18, 2011 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> Chicano rock music is being led by a wave of socially and politically active Latin-fusion bands that emerged and gained popularity in the 1990s such as [[Aztlan Underground]], [[Ozomatli]], Lysa Flores, [[Quinto Sol]] and more. Their music in general pulls from other genres (soul, [[samba]], reggae, and rap) and utilizes multilingual lyrics (in Spanish, English and Nahuatl) and takes themes like urban exile, indigenous identity and multiracial unity and layers them in order to put into the spotlight important social issues. These artists in particular have been exceptionally successful due to the millions of Latinos in Los Angeles, California that are bilingual/bicultural. One of the larger purposes of the music is to draw attention to "present conditions of oppression and disenfranchisement" in the East L.A. scene, and to provide a form of political possibility to those who are less powerful (financially, socially, etc.).<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Viesca |first=Victor Hugo |title=The Battle of Los Angeles: The Cultural Politics of Chicana/o Music in the Greater Eastside |date=September 2004 |journal=American Quarterly |publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press |volume=56 |pages=719–720 |doi=10.1353/aq.2004.0045 |jstor=40068240 |quote=Los Angeles and the Future of Urban Cultures |issue=3 |s2cid=143471138}}</ref>

The Alacranes' frontman, [[Ramón "Chunky" Sánchez]], once said that Chicano rock lies "somewhere between Pedro Infante and the Rolling Stones." This categorization, or lack-thereof, by Sánchez demonstrates that Chicano rock might be characterized by an identity rather than a musical style.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Azcona |first=Stevan Cesar |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/304482559 |title=Movements in Chicano music: Performing culture, performing politics, 1965–1979 |date=2008 |pages=3 |id={{ProQuest|304482559}} }}</ref>