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Confessions of a Radical Chicano Doo-Wop Singer / Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Guevara, Ruben, Author.
- Series:
- American crossroads.
- American Crossroads ; 51
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Guevara, Ruben.
- Mexican American musicians--California, Southern--Biography.
- Mexican American musicians.
- Rock musicians--United States--Biography.
- Rock musicians.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 352 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- A pioneer of Chicano rock, Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara performed with Frank Zappa, Johnny Otis, Bo Diddley, Tina Turner, and Celia Cruz, though he is best known as the front man of the 1970s experimental rock band Ruben And The Jets. Here he recounts how his youthful experiences in the barrio La Veinte of Santa Monica in the 1940s prepared him for early success in music and how his triumphs and seductive brushes with stardom were met with tragedy and crushing disappointments. Brutally honest and open, Confessions of a Radical Chicano Doo-Wop Singer is an often hilarious and self-critical look inside the struggle of becoming an artist and a man. Recognizing racial identity as composite, contested, and complex, Guevara-an American artist of Mexican descent-embraces a Chicano identity of his own design, calling himself a Chicano "culture sculptor" who has worked to transform the aspirations, alienations, and indignities of the Mexican American people into an aesthetic experience that could point the way to liberation.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Fire and Flames of Funkahuatl / Kun, Josh / Lipsitz, George
- Prologue
- La Veinte: A Santa Monica Barrio
- Rubén Ladrón de Guevara Sr., 1914-2006
- Superman in Ese Eme
- Music and Movie Moments
- Miss Las Vegas
- La Gatita
- Las Vegas and the Breakup of Our Family
- Sue Dean
- Miss Hollywood
- Shindig! with Tina Turner and Bo Diddley
- The Sunset Strip Riots and My Second Marriage
- The Southern Belle
- LACC and the New Revelations Gospel Choir
- Miss Santa Barbara and the Summer of 1971
- Frank Zappa and Ruben And The Jets, 1972-1974
- Miss Pamela and the GTOs
- Miss Claremont
- Miss Chino
- The Mutiny
- The Movie Star and Miss Blue Eyes
- Opening for Zappa at San Francisco's Winterland
- Con Safos: The Album
- Pilgrimage to Mexico
- La Gypsy
- From "The Star Spangled Banner" to Punk
- The Whisky and a New Band: Con Safos
- Miss Aztlán
- Gotcha!
- Zyanya Records
- Cristina, Día de los Muertos, and Chicano Heaven
- Born in East L.A.: Th e Movie
- Caliente y Picante
- Performance Art
- To France with Aztlán, Babylon, Rhythm & Blues
- Validation Crisis
- Jammin' with John Valadez
- Arts 4 City Youth and Trying Again
- UCLA
- Journey to New Aztlán
- The Enchantress
- América Tropical
- Miss Mongolia
- Teaching Poetry
- Inner City Lessons
- Teaching at UCLA
- Becoming a Xikano Tantrik Funk Monk
- Lust into Art: Mexamérica and Performing at the Getty
- The Eastside Revue: 1932-2002, A Musical Homage to Boyle Heights
- L.A. Times Profile of Boyle Heights
- Funkahuatl's Absurd Chronicles
- The Iraq War
- Cross-cultural Friendships and Protests
- Manzanar Pilgrimage
- Yellow Pearl Remix
- Saving the Toypurina Monument
- Rock 'n' Rights for the Mentally Disabled
- Resistance and Respect: Los Angeles Muralism and Graff Art
- Miss Bogotá and the X Festival Ibéroamericano del Teatro
- Word Up! A Word, Performance, and Th eater Summit
- Meeting My Brothers from the Westbank First Nation, British Columbia
- Epiphany at Joshua Tree
- Miss Altar in the Sky
- The Eastside Luvers
- The Tao of Funkahuatl
- Release of The Tao of Funkahuatl CD in L.A. and Japan
- MEX/LA
- Rockin' the House of Dues and Grand Performances
- Fifty Years in Show Biz
- Miss Beijing
- Miss Monterey Park
- End of the Ten-Year Sex Drought
- Seventy and Still Running
- Platonic Homegirls
- Joseph Trotter
- A Boyle Heights Cultural Treasure
- Boyle Heights Por Vida
- ¡Angelin@s Presente!
- Sara Casillas-Gutiérrez Guevara, 1923-2016
- Staged Confessions
- The Fall
- Take Me Higher, Mi Reina
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9780520969667
- 0520969669
- OCLC:
- 1065389400
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