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Alice Bag (born Alicia Armendariz on November 7, 1958, in Los Angeles, California) is a punk rock singer, musician, author, educator and feminist archivist. She is the lead singer and co-founder of Bags, one of the first wave of punk bands to form in the mid-1970s in LA. Her first book ''Violence Girl, From East LA Rage to Hollywood Stage'' is the story of her upbringing in East Los Angeles, her eventual migration to Hollywood and the euphoria and aftermath of the first punk wave. This former bilingual elementary school teacher continues as an author, outspoken activist, feminist and a self-proclaimed troublemaker. Bag has remained active in music since the late 1970s and will release her second book in 2015. ==Biography== Alice Bag was born and raised in East Los Angeles, California. As a child, Alice Bag was influenced by the music played by her family, including her father's ranchera music and sister's soul music collections. As a member of the punk rock band Bags, Alice was at the forefront of the L.A. punk rock scene in the late 1970s. Though punk rock is seen as a predominantly white male genre in the mainstream light; Bag describes the early movement as an extremely welcoming community being open to everyone, especially to women. She is most famous for being a member of Bags, one of the first bands on the L.A. punk scene. Bags were notable for having two female lead musicians (Patricia Morrison co-founded the group with her school friend, Bag) and for pioneering an aggressive sound and style which has been cited as an early influence on what would become the hardcore punk sound. The aggressive sound that the band had was later noted to have a Mexican/Chicano influence that Alice unintentionally brought along from her childhood.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=East L.A. Punk )〕 Members of Bags appeared as the Alice Bag Band in director Penelope Spheeris's landmark 1981 documentary on the Southern California punk scene, The Decline of Western Civilization. As a lead singer of punk band Bags, she cocreated the first wave of California punk alongside the likes of Black Flag, X, the Germs, Phranc (then in Catholic Discipline, and the five spunky gals we came to know as the Go-Go's.〔Seggel H. VIOLENCE GIRL: EAST L.A. RAGE TO HOLLYWOOD STAGE, A CHICANA PUNK STORY. Bitch Magazine: Feminist Response To Pop Culture (online ). Spring2012 2012;(54):65. Available from: Academic Search Complete, Ipswich, MA. Accessed June 1, 2014〕 Bag went on to appear and perform in other Los Angeles–based rock bands including Castration Squad, The Boneheads, Alarma, Cambridge Apostles, Swing Set, Cholita - the Female Menudo (with her friend and collaborator, performance artist Vaginal Davis, Las Tres, Goddess 13 (the subject of a KCET/PBS produced documentary, "Chicanas In Tune") and Stay At Home Bomb. Throughout her years of gaining her education, Alice Bag experienced not so friendly encounters and was picked on. During her middle school and high school years, she was picked on for her weight, her teeth, and her physical appearance. “And her painful middle school experiences as an overweight girl with buck teeth and glasses.” So she found that she was alone a lot of the time. That took a big part in her music tastes. It drew her to develop a certain liking in music such as Queen, David Bowie and Elton John. She became so into those artists that when she transferred high schools, people called her, “Ziggy” after David Bowie’s persona. This stage in her life guided her to transform into a rebellious, yet attentive teenager.〔http://www.esperanzacenter.org/quepasa/2012-AliceBag/LaVoz-ViolenceGirlpgs.pdf〕 Later on in Bag’s life when she made the connection between punk performances and ranchera ones, she created the genre “punk-chera,” which she performed by mixing aspects of each separate genre.〔Habell-Pallán, Michelle (2012) “Death to Racism and Punk Revisionism”〕 As a part of the Hollywood 70s punk scene, Bag helped to create a music that was originally open to artists of color. Bags’ influence was thus, even more important for Chicanas and women in general. Her screams became her signature sound, and characterized the Hollywood/L.A. punk scene, and later inspired some in the East L.A. punk scene. In the 1990s she began collaborating with one of East L.A.'s favorite punk singer, songwriter, and musician Teresa Covarrubias of the Brat. Alice Bag seemed to be influenced by her family’s history. More of the way her father was. He was an abusive man towards her mother. She found this connection between the way he was and Lucha Libre. She had a love/hate relationship towards him. She knew he could be a villain, but could also be a good man. “It was as much part of the Mexican culture as eating a sweet apple with salt of chili.” (Alice Bag) Although some memories of her father were negative, she still enjoyed and stated that some of her happiest memories were going on trips to Tijuana to visit her father’s family in Mexico. Out of her culture, she was influenced by the performances of Lucha Villa, Pedro Infante and Jose Alfredo Jimenez. They influenced her feel for music, and caused her to develop her own style of singing.〔 A cause Alice Bag has been passionate about is education, especially bilingualism. In a home that chastised her for speaking anything other than Spanish with her family, Alice has first-hand experience to the difficulties of going to school without knowing English. Teachers ridiculed her for not knowing English, long stints with no friends followed by a brief foray into cheerleading, close calls with law enforcement and a firsthand view of police mistreatment of Chicano rights activists, its clear to the reader how each experience contributes to the evolution of a stage persona.〔 Alice began working at inner-city LA schools, teaching English, after she received her bachelor's degree in Philosophy from California State University- Los Angeles.〔http://alicebag.com/bio.html〕 Alice Bag defied all odds and became a creator of what would eventually become known as punk despite many setbacks and family and social pressures. The article "Vexed on the Eastside: Chicana Roots and Routes of L.A. Punk," captures Alice Bag’s energy and enthusiasm by quoting ''Los Angeles Times'' which stated, “When Alice lead singer for Bags rock group, takes the stage in torn fishnet hose and micro mini leopard-skin tunic, she explodes into convulsive, unintelligible vocals.” Still today Alice shares her music with her followers. In addition to her musical talents she also inspires other women musicians and remains involved with her community through her biography titled “Violence Girl”.〔Habell-Pallán, Michelle. Vexed on the Eastside: Chicana Roots and Routes of L.A. Punk.〕 Bag currently maintains part-time residency in Los Angeles, California and Phoenix, Arizona. She remains musically active and collaborates with artists including Teresa Covarrubias, (Lysa Flores ), Martin Sorrondeguy, Allison Wolfe and others. She has recently begun exhibiting her oil paintings in gallery showings.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Razorcake Punk Music Magazine - Punk Band Interviews - - Alice Bag Interview - Photos by Kat Jetson, Originally ran in Razorcake #24 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alice Bag」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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