- Yessica Garcia Hernandez "Latinx AcaFans: Mapping out our Genealogies"
- Eddy F. Alvarez "Unruly Hair, Unruly Subjects: Gloria Trevi Queer and Feminist Latinx Fans"
- José Anguiano "Chulita Vinyl Club: Curating Culture, Remixing Gender Norms"
- Nicolas Centino Queering “The Oldies but Goodies”
Moderator: Iris Viveros Avendaño
While the cultural study of Latinx music is a well-established field of study, the study of Latinx audiences of music and listening practices has received less scholarly attention, perhaps because the role of the audience was seen as a less important, passive form of consumption, or the collection of data more difficult. This panel reconsiders fan cultures and listening from the perspective that fandom and listening are active processes of imagination, creation and analysis. Following the work of scholars such as Simon Frith, Josh Kun, and Jennifer Stoever, papers in the panel address the process by which music is an inner journey of self-exploration and an outer journey of connecting to other people and cultures, and set of social relations.
This panel explores how Chicanx-Latinx fan cultures constructed around music and listening practices reinforce and challenge gender norms, underscore the way desires of various kinds factor into listening behavior, and insist we listen to fans as a means to go beyond fixed notions of Chicanx-Latinx culture. Latinx listening cultures open a space where Latino-ness is made and remade through what and how we listen.