that resonates powerfully with me as well. Think about the OJ Simpson trial, this was sort of the beginning of the precursors of reality TV in the 90s. But, for example, episode 4 is about the mainstreaming of big butts and big butt culture. So I knew that I wanted it to be rooted in the personal, that the only way I could tell the story authentically is if I told it from my lens in the world. Ben Brock Johnsonis Executive Producer of podcasts for WBUR, where he directs strategic and editorial initiatives involving podcasts and on demand audio. She holds a Masters Degree in Arts and Culture Journalism from Columbia Journalism School. After her death, Tejano went from boom to bust. We shall television where it's like it falls pray, citizens, you know, especially because it so like you said constrained by like the form and, the time limits. I love hearing perspectives that I didn't consider. Anything For Selena | Podcast on Spotify Sign up Log in Home Search Your Library Create Playlist Liked Songs Cookies Privacy Preview of Spotify Sign up to get unlimited songs and podcasts with occasional ads. So I think journalists are really like their tart, ring positions and tat, sort of stay in the middle and waited. [Laughter], ===Excerpt: 2014 Associated Press Interview===. emphatically storytelling and again a lot around politics policy and around border town issues. you know and she celebrated her curls as she own them, and she didn't try to hide them. Wait like I love that the core of what I'm doing, but I can't do it in the, I knew that I wanted to keep telling stories. 00:40:44 - NPR and Futuro Studios present The Last Cup, a limited series about soccer and the immigrant experience. I have to imagine that sir, important in the process because at some point young, the more we, do something like this, I think the harder it is to be objective. And so I think that there was just a natural effervescence, and a natural talent, and she was a disciplined musician, and all of that came across on stage. Growing up along the US-Mexico border, Maria Garcia felt torn between her two identities as Mexican and American. Sin embargo, la historia de su declive no es tan sencilla. Why do you think that Selena broke through the way that she did? without us, even realising a causing a certain amount of stifling or harm yeah, absolutely I mean it stayed with me for many many years I I could switch, all my life. as a journalist I had to disclose where I was coming. Copyright Trustees of Boston University. And so suddenly, her death was a top story in English networks and in Spanish networks--incredibly anomalous for the time. Here, it's not even the city, it's not necessarily even people. But when Selena died, Tejano went from boom to bust. And Selena! In the 25 years since her murder, Selenas image has taken on new meaning. And how do you work through stuff like that? En este episodio, Maria analiza por qu la tez morena de Selena es parte crucial del legado de la reina del tex-mex y reflexiona sobre cmo su exploracin de la raza de Selena la condujo a revelaciones acerca de su propia identidad. Hear our news on-air at our partner site: Selena Quintanilla is a cultural icon for many, but for Maria Garcia, she's much more than that. he felt and how it was really moving. Today, the obsession with big butts is still strong with idols like Cardi B and Beyonce. The Anything For Selena podcast released earlier this year is a story of how Selena helped shape pop culture and American identity. I grew up. How would we know that a fun is merely a vessel for delivering equity, smoked sausage to your mouth and that there is no shame in being the first to get seconds, good life project is supported by the chamber, so good nutrition. Boulders surly, its nestled right in the front rank the rockies and often describe it as if he turned your problem, upwards and then you took your fingers and you reach them up. This has a deep, deep history of, that, though the relationship and has with blackness, yeah I mean it was interesting to see basely dedicate an entire episode to this conversation cause I was, I was imagining a fairly, limited run of episodes and when you're trying to figure out who. Yeah, I have a large rear, I guess, for the norm, but for me, it's normal, 'cause I grew up. [Laughter] That's what it is, Nick! yeah there were editorial decisions like that, all the time, change your mind when necessary, but ultimately you also gotta. February 23, 2021 After the premiere of Selena: The Series on Netflix, some fans claimed Selena had been "whitewashed" in the show. Listen to The Mel Robbins Podcast every Monday and Thursday wherever you listen to podcasts. Turn on Live Caption for free I spent my early life in Mexico on the weekends and in the States during the week, and so I really came into consciousness very aware--hyper-aware--of the duality within me. I have moments where I'm like, why do I do this? Las ceremonias de premiacin de la msica tejana eran eventos glamorosos y los DJ de estaciones de radio dedicadas al gnero eran vistos como estrellas de rock en Texas y el resto del sudoeste de Estados Unidos. In the premiere episode of "Anything for Selena," host Maria Garcia explores how Selena helped Maria find her own place in the world. And this project forced me to do that. After the premiere ofSelena: The Serieson Netflix, some fans claimed Selena had been whitewashed in the show. Chris shares a side of Selena we rarely get to see, and Maria learns about how love was one of the ways Selena charted her own path. It all boiled down, it all manifested, in this horrible, crass radio fight. I couldn't separate myself as a person, from my role as a journalist here and I had to sort of clean with the listeners, and I think that, parts of myself that are scary for me to show you. You know in a more, maybe it's just like an appreciation that is somehow abidjan. There are so many lessons to be learned from leaving a job, no matter what happens after soon learn more about Keith balkans journey exclusively on script, get inspired by, he's broken with quitting today, with a free sixty day trial at try, dot, script, dot, com, slashed g, LP, that's try, dot s e r, I b D, dotcom, slash de LP or just click. Twenty five years later, Maria is on a quest to. We're here still talking about her because she had such a stage presence. Se transform en el modelo a seguir de cmo alcanzar la aceptacin dentro del sueo americano para todos los Latinos. We talk about how this project, because, a calling in how and why she felt compelled to weave her own story into the bigger story. selena, laughter, latino, episode, life, story, border, mexican immigrants, world, identity, latinos, grew, died, culture, moment, personal, ascend, bottom, nick, talk, Jennifer Lopez, Abraham Quintanilla, Unknown, Howard Stern, Maria Garcia, Oprah Winfrey, Robin Quivers, Nick Quah, Jennifer Lopez, Chris Rock, Fred Norris. Selena devotees of all ages have turned to Instagram, TikTok and Youtube to restore and remix Selena's memory. Ok, let's dive into this conversation, you know-. Selena Quintanilla may have built her career singing Spanish songs, but she didnt grow up speaking Spanish at home. About his own marriage to Selina and relationships and love and heartbreak, You know what to. Twenty is. "And we do that by using the tools of our craft as journalists, like rigorous journalism, cultural analysis, but then also, very intimate, vulnerable storytelling. The exploration takes us to an unexpected place. The podcast examines the Tejano Queen's impact on race, politics and the cultures she inhabited. Incluso el New York Times lo catalog el gnero latino de ms rpido crecimiento del pas. roots music, mexican american roots, music from texas, from when she was eight years old. March 23, 2021 In this intimate Q&A, host Maria Garcia and producers Antonia Cereijido and Kristin Torres take listeners behind the scenes for a look at the making of Anything for Selena. Plus,. You do you, stories woven into this, but it's also there, are exploring along the way, almost like using, her story in your story, as these launching points are not the least of which is, media after her death, even really teat up the question of like, be harmed or raised or not recognise along the way, important conversations that you t up in a very, like that just mention those on the side, but you like now, but actually dedicate a substantial amount of conversation to these. where'd it to me to stay with the land and connect with that. Maria discovers that the story of Tejano's decline isn't so simple. her work together and reflect back here. I think I already am. She was the queen of the hand of music of this roots genre in texas. When he was granted DACA, he was able to intern for Oregon Public Broadcasting as a production assistant for OPBsState of Wonderand OPBsWeekend Edition. A quarter century after her death, Selena is breaking the internet. And it felt like these two parts of myself were divorced from each other. When I talk about salinas dad and my own dad, you know. I've never seen anything like that. Through the lens of the life of iconic performer, Selena Quintanilla, and the impact she had not just on Marias life, but on tens of millions around the world, even decades after her tragic passing at a young age. That early resonates are often described. how telling you the lands that I'm looking at it through, and that is completely shaped by growing up in this. You are giving people, a different entry point into an important issue, seeing it up in a way which was potentially inviting more people into it and inviting them into looking at a different. There is now a whole generation of people who have come of age, like me, who have experienced these moments with Selena. And I feel like in that sequence, in that moment, in that interaction, the entirety of white/non-white relations in America was sort of bottled into that, which is that the fight is just like, understand where we're coming from. Your new and improved kitchen can be completed in weeks, not months. by just that's what the container allows for, but. I want to ask about a specific scene in the third episode. feeling around how much a journalist inserts themselves are not had a really evolved from coming from you know. Aprendi castellano a la vista del pblico, y los errores que cometi se convirtieron en algunos de sus momentos ms famosos y entraables. We're gonna try. A lot of people have tried, I was storing a lot of people have told pieces of the story. what led to that end, the lake late fierce resistance from her dad the illegal tell really powerfully in the pond cas but her huh, during this whole winter time, and you knew, when and found him and were able to arrange a sit down with them, and this was in the middle of the endemic at this point. You know I did it and jobs, I did it, when I went to my fancy grad school, and it was, I would say my late twenties early thirties that I, to realize. Everybody looks at the story they're working on from the place in the world that they occupy. The story shook the country and changed Marias life. This week, Nick speaks with Maria about Anything for Selena, her new series from WBUR and Futuro Studios, which revisits the legacy of Selena, with an ear to trying to unpack how, exactly, she changed culture. On the podcast Anything for Selena, Apple Podcasts' Show of the Year of 2021, Maria Garca combines rigorous reporting with impassioned storytelling to honor Selena's legacy. So what I'm hearing is that she's sort of this symbol of that bridge that many non-white Americans have in this country, of being of the two worlds and not being part of either. But then, also, I think it's also because there was a hunger at the time, and there still is. This is such a safe place in part because, the place of immigrants. When I was in graduate school and I needed some motivation, I would listen to Selena, and I realized that there were all these milestones in my life where she was there. In particular, you know I've evolved a bet, I've come to realise that it's not it's, not that I am not, along a little bit and both but growing up. There's a lot of Selena stuff out there, there's a lot of Selena content, but there's nothing that really unpacks how she changed culture, what she's responsible for, the cultural shifts that she's responsible for. Nearly thirty years ago, Sir-Mix-A-Lots raunchy and irreverent single Baby Got Back (I Like Big Butts) hit the airwaves to the delight and shock of listeners. They stay with you, and they inform the career paths you take, and they inform the relationships you build. A 2016 video that Tesla used to promote its self-driving technology was staged to show capabilities like stopping at a red light and accelerating at a green light that the system did not . Selena Quintanilla, the Grammy-winning ascending Mexican American popstar had been killed swiftly, violently by the president of her fan club. She was like, beta Latin boom, you know? And what if theyd been gone from the planet for 25 years, but still it was like they were present in your life, guiding and inspiring you every day? There is no such thing as coming to a story from no place at all. Are you texas, new york, somewhere else, I'm in EL paso? "It has this unforgettable smell when it rains," the voice says. La teora, por supuesto, tiene que ver con Selena Quintanilla, pero tambin con la pelcula Selena, protagonizada por Jennifer Lopez, y la subsiguiente explosin latina. Juan Diego Ramirezis a production assistant at Futuro Studios and Latino USA. Well, what norm? Esta exploracin nos lleva a un lugar inesperado. Can we shorten this down? Donate Anything For Selena. Editors Notes: Mexican-American recording artist Selena Quintanilla not only popularized Tejano music to mainstream American audiences, but also helped put Latinos on the map and broke barriers of all kinds before her untimely passing in 1995. You know I am genuinely a fan idle, he comes up. Original music from the podcast is available now on SoundCloud. I was in kind of a haze when I wrote that. And somebody once told me like, "What you're scared to write about, what makes you the most scared to confront, that's what you should be writing." It was kind of, the kennedy assassination for lahti knows it was a massive news, a banned it was, very first time in my life tat, I saw the same news, headline in like an english national network and, mexico national network. Nearly 30 years ago, Sir-Mix-A-Lots Baby Got Back (I Like Big Butts) hit the airwaves to the delight and shock of listeners. Maria Garcia is the senior arts and culture editor at the public radio station WBUR in Boston. time talking to this guy. See acast.com/privacy for more information. I am not saying that selina wizard of this bastion of body positivity big, hers. ===Excerpt, The Oprah Winfrey Show, unknown episode, 1999===, There's all this talk about My girlfriend Gayle--I didn't even know this--but my girlfriend, "You know, people are always talking about her bottom.. In this episode, Maria analyzes why Selena's brownness is an essential part of her legacy and reflects on how the exploration of Selena's race led Maria to revelations about her own identity. And this podcast has given me the gift--the gift--of navigating my own pain, navigating these very scary questions about my own identity, and yeah, no, it's horrifying. "She had this . It was the early 1990s and she was 7, watching the Tejano star perform on television. If you LOVED this episode youll also love the conversations we had with Samin Nosrat about food, belonging, culture and connection. En el transcurso de su vida, Selena se convirti en un smbolo de esperanza. Travelling. 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