Tere Estrada, Mexican Rockera
Sunday June 08, 2008
$8 gen. $6 seniors/students w/ID. - 7:30pm
Tere Estrada, a composer, singer, and guitarist, was born in Mexico City in the late sixties. Since 1988 she has dedicated herself to professional music and has specialized in blues, rock, jazz, funk, and Latin rhythm. She has participated in multiple festivals, cultural centers, universities, and alternative forums in Mexico and Europe. Tere Estrada has recorded six albums. While at the Autonomous National University of Mexico, she wrote about rock and culture in Mexican newspapers and magazines. Since 1998 she has been part of the quintet of composers called Mujeres en Fuga [Women On The Run] and the jazz trio YAX. She has published the song book La cueva de los susurros oxidados [The Den of Rusty Whispers] and two books regarding women's roles in rock music.
Tere will talk about her new book 'Sirenas al Ataque", Mermaids on the Attack, a history of women rockers in Mexico. 30 min. presentation followed by 45 min. concert.
Serenas al Ataque: This is a story of absences and heartaches; a story told, written, and felt by women. And talking about women in rock is to discuss their ups and downs, adventures, sudden changes, limitations, frustrations, and achievements. This is the story of those women who forged a path into the originally male space of rock music. It is a story that includes female singers, composers, instrumentalists, managers, producers, engineers, and broadcasters. All of these figures contributed to the development of the musical culture in Mexico. The result is a valuable book that allows us to familiarize ourselves with that part of Mexican rock that was only known as hearsay, in isolated texts or in partial approaches: the history of women rockers in Mexico.
