MACRI Talk - Chuco Punk: The Roots and Influence of Punk Rock in El Paso
Thu, Oct 02
|Virtual Event
Learn about the roots & influence of the predominantly Chicanx punk rock scene in El Paso since the late 1970s.
Time & Location
Oct 02, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Virtual Event
About the event
Join us for a virtual MACRI Talk about the history of punk rock in El Paso featuring Dr. Tara López. Learn about the roots and influence of the predominantly Chicanx punk rock scene in El Paso since the late 1970s.
Punk music is associated with rebellion, social unrest, and challenging power structures, while questioning conformity, inequality, and corruption, so of course, there are connections to Mexican American civil rights!
MACRI is excited to host Dr. Tara López, the 2025 Al Lowman Memorial Prize recipient for her recent book, Chuco Punk, to be our guide connecting El Paso’s punk scene to the city’s history as a borderland, a site of segregation, and a place with a long lineage of cultural and musical resistance. Covering the first roots of Chuco punk in the late 1970s through the early 2000s, we’ll learn about how Dr. López used more than seventy interviews with punks,…