Chicano Rock

Rock music performed by Mexican American (Chicano) groups or music with themes derived from Chicano culture. Chicano rock, to a great extent, does not refer to any single style or approach. Some of these groups do not sing in Spanish at all or use many specific Latin instruments or sounds. The subgenre is defined by the ethnicity of its performers, and as a result covers a wide range of approaches.

The earliest Chicano rock emerged as a distinctive style of rock and roll performed by Mexican Americans from East Los Angeles and Southern California, containing lyrics from their cultural experience. Its overarching theme is its rhythm and blues influence and incorporation of brass instruments like the saxophone and trumpet, Farfisa or Hammond B3 organ, funky basslines, and its blending of Mexican vocal stylings sung in English. The second form of Chicano rock is more open to blues music, soul music, R&B, rock, funk, Latin music, salsa music, and jazz. A third style is Latino punk. 1948–    .