BOOK DATA Monica De La Torre, Feminista Frequencies: Community Building through Radio in the Yakima Valley. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2022. $99.00 hardcover; $27.95 paper. 176 pages.
Although radio is commonly perceived as a medium of the past, it remains one of the most effective life-sustaining tools for Spanish-speaking Latinx communities in the United States. Monica De La Torre’s Feminista Frequencies: Community Building through Radio in the Yakima Valley traces the importance of Spanish-language community radio for relatively isolated rural communities in the Pacific Northwest. In particular, the book centers on the history and herstory of Radio Cadena (KDNA 91.9 FM), the first Chicana/o-owned and -operated full-time Spanish-language community radio station in the United States. Launched in 1979 as “la voz del campesino” (the voice of the farmworker), KDNA produces and broadcasts educational, cultural, and informational programming that speaks to the realities of farmworkers of Mexican...
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