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The cultural impact of Mustache Mondays, a weekly event held at nightclubs throughout downtown, continues to reverberate through the worlds of fashion, photography, performance art, visual art, music and choreography in Los Angeles and beyond.
The Chicano sound began when Mexican American youth were looking for new ways to express themselves and feeling a need to be seen. The struggle continues today. Learn how music has given generations of Mexican Americans a voice and a platform to express what it means to be Chicano.
In Los Angeles, compilations are windows into the Latinx music landscape, spanning rock, punk, disco and soul, genres and cultures that have often been marginalized or ignored in mainstream media.
Though the artists at Brooklyn-based record label Daptone Records shaped and led the soul music revival through the turn of the century, a handful of artists in Southern California were also hard at work placing their own stamp in the growing scene.
During the 1950s and 1960s, Los Angeles had its own Motown records — Dootone Records. The label's owner, Dootsie Williams, was a trailblazing Black music executive and entrepreneur who not only left an impact on the music industry, but also in his community.
You may not recognize it at all while driving on the road, but American Legion Hall Post #465 has been host to musical legends in its long history. It continues to bring the community together in Bell Gardens.
A jazz great Kenny Burrell belongs to a galaxy of great musicians including Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock, but it all began in Detroit, continued on to countless single-day recording sessions and eventually grew to a venerable university-level jazz program.
In Los Angeles, cumbia remains a lifeforce for its residents made up of recent immigrants who are looking for a taste of home and others looking to connect with their ancestral culture. Here's where to find these hotspots in the city.
"Ellen Reid SOUNDWALK" is a meditative experience that marries music to Griffith Park's natural splendor. Here's how to navigate the GPS-enabled app, for a worry-free experience.
In her decades of activism, Nobuko Miyamoto has bridged the divides of art forms and race in a quest for social justice.
A new crop of artists from the Southland have taken on the mantle of Chicano soul and oldies. Groups such as Thee Sacred Souls, Thee Sinseers, Los Yesterdays, The Altons, and Vicky Tafoya and the Big Beat, to name a few, have recorded music that invoke the romance, longing and nostalgia of yesteryear, while adding flourishes of other genres into the mix.
Reimagining and reinvesting in public education is critical for any society to move forward. Three schools in Los Angeles County show how arts education can be transformative to a young mind.