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Scope and Contents What does music sound like when it's created by activists' It sounds like this. The music group known as Quetzal was created in Los Angeles in the 1990s. The Rodney King police beating trial and the subsequent riots had shaken the city. And as people came together to heal there was a Chicano arts renaissance. That's when the group was created by Quetzal Flores, a Chicano who was raised by two activist parents from the sixties and seventies. After the Zapatista uprising in Mexico in 1994, the...