Dissonant Divas in Chicana MusicMusical sound has been central to heteromasculinist productions of nation and homeland, whether Chicano, Tejano, Texan, Mexican, or American. If this assertion holds true, as Deborah R. Vargas suggests, then what are we to make of those singers and musicians whose representations of gender and sexuality are irreconcilable with canonical Chicano Tejano music or what Vargas refers to as la onda? These are the dissonant divas Vargas discusses, performers