Listening to this podcast, I was interested in the subject. By the life of Selena. She was killed when I was only two years old so her fame was before my time. Because the genre of her music is not…
Note on Anything for Selena
I went in as cold as you could be: the podcast started and I heard the story of Maria Garcia—then the other shoe dropped. Selena: oh yeah, that sounds familiar. I was learning who Selena was: but this podcast isn’t…
Thoughts from Anything for Selina
Maria Garcia lets us know this is her story. She uses the border as a symbol of the separations of herself as well as the countries. As with Jesus on a Tortilla we hear about hardship and prejudice Mexican immigrants…
El (e)spanglish, la lengua del futuro
Confession: I still have Tribe Called Quest in my head, days later, now remixed with Selena (and Dilson Hernandez and Ben Grosscup’s No More Sacrifice Zones, but that’s…off-topic). What is the relationship between music and memory? Reading Go Ahead…
Anything for Selena, Episode 1, Episode 2 – Reader Response from Sandy Jimenez
After listening to more, (nearly all) of the podcast episodes in this series (and re-listening over the past couple of months,) I have to concede that I had judged much of its tone unfairly. I had dismissed these podcasts entirely…
Selena Reflection
I like when we get alternate forms of memoir/biography “reading,” aka podcasts for this week as it allows me to consider how each form can enhance or emphasize different aspects of storytelling. I was thinking a lot this week about…
“Old,” “Older,” “Oldest,” but potentially not “Too Old”?
Victoria Phillips Selena Podcast and Media Reflection I am old. Well, in today’s parlance I am supposed to say, “I am older,” and never, “I am old.” But when I listen to most podcasts, I feel more old than older.…
A Tribe Called Quest
Phife and Q-Tip on “Check the Rhime” On the Grammy Awards On SnL Cheryl Boyce-Taylor
Prologue Attempt
Note: Not finished – ran out of time and was already 400 words over the word count, yikes! My ambition may have overshot the assignment; below I tried to clarify the story from the situation of my subject. And while…
Reflections on Go Ahead in the Rain
I am a fan. I absolutely loved A Little Devil in America; I follow Abdurraqib on social media; I went to hear shows in a musical series he curated because he’d curated it. He is a genius, knows everything, wears…
