Confessions of a Radical Chicano Doo-Wop Singer: Volume 51 (American Crossroads) - Softcover

Guevara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520297237 ISBN 13: 9780520297234

Verlag: University of California Press, 2018

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"...a fresh and intriguing, heartfelt and insightful cruise through the main thoroughfares, side streets, and alleyways of Chicano rock 'n' roll, performance art, and Los Angeles cultures, past, present, and beyond, seamlessly written by this first-time author." * Los Angeles Review of Books *

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A pioneer of Chicano rock, Ruben 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.

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0520297237
• ISBN 13: 9780520297234
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 374