Review: Razabilly: Transforming Sights, Sounds, and History in the Los Angeles Latina/o Rockabilly Scene, by Nicholas F. Centino

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Book Review| November 01 2022 Review: Razabilly: Transforming Sights, Sounds, and History in the Los Angeles Latina/o Rockabilly Scene, by Nicholas F. Centino Nicholas F. Centino. Razabilly: Transforming Sights, Sounds, and History in the Los Angeles Latina/o Rockabilly Scene. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021. 224 pp. Paperback $29.95. Jorge N. Leal Jorge N. Leal JORGE N. LEAL is an assistant professor of Chicanx/Latinx history at the University of California, Riverside. He earned his PhD in U.S. history at the University of California, San Diego. He is currently working on a manuscript that examines how Latinx youth-culture participants have reshaped the urban space and advocated for more expansive notions of belonging in late twentieth-century Southern California. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar California History (2022) 99 (4): 108–110. https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2022.99.4.108 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jorge N. Leal; Review: Razabilly: Transforming Sights, Sounds, and History in the Los Angeles Latina/o Rockabilly Scene, by Nicholas F. Centino. California History 1 November 2022; 99 (4): 108–110. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2022.99.4.108 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentCalifornia History Search In this concise history of Los Angeles’s Rockabilly scene, Nicholas Centino examines a critical period in the remaking of the city, the near-present, as he delves into the first decades of the twenty-first century. In this critical era, Latinas/os became close to half of the population of Los Angeles County. However, their presence continued to be marginalized socially and demonized politically, and their economic and educational progress in “de/postindustrial” Los Angeles was impaired by entrenched systemic racism. In four chapters, Centino presents the Rockabilly scene as an international phenomenon and examines how it took root in 2000s Latina/o Los Angeles. A revival genre, Rockabilly combines elements of Black R&B and white country music from the 1950s. By the late 1990s, the genre had gained strong acceptance and popularity in Greater Los Angeles, where Chicanas/os and Latinas/os became the driving force of the Rockabilly scene as performers, event organizers, and participants.... You do not currently have access to this content.