Confessions of a Radical Chicano Doo-Wop Singer

AvRubén Funkahuatl Guevara

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-04-13
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:544 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:American Crossroads
Antal sidor:376
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520297234

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Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara is a native Angelino Chicano musician, singer, and songwriter with Ruben And The Jets (cofounded with Frank Zappa), Con Safos, and the Eastside Luvers; a record producer of Chicano rock and rock en español compilations; and a performance artist, poet, short story writer, historian, journalist, and activist.

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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."

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Acknowledgments xiIntroduction: The Fire and Flames of Funkahuatl, by Josh Kun and George Lipsitz 1Prologue 16La Veinte: A Santa Monica Barrio 17Rubén Ladrón de Guevara Sr., 1914–2006 21Superman in Ese Eme 26Music and Movie Moments 32Miss Las Vegas 36La Gatita 38Las Vegas and the Breakup of Our Family 43Sue Dean 49Miss Hollywood 52Shindig! with Tina Turner and Bo Diddley 56The Sunset Strip Riots and My Second Marriage 62The Southern Belle 64LACC and the New Revelations Gospel Choir 68Miss Santa Barbara and the Summer of 1971 75Frank Zappa and Ruben and the Jets, 1972–1974 80Miss Pamela and the GTOs 85Miss Claremont 87Miss Chino 89The Mutiny 91The Movie Star and Miss Blue Eyes 94Opening for Zappa at San Francisco’s Winterland 97Con Safos: The Album 99Pilgrimage to Mexico 105La Gypsy 114From “The Star Spangled Banner” to Punk 116The Whisky and a New Band: Con Safos 120Miss Aztlán 124Gotcha! 126Zyanya Records 128Cristina, Día de Los Muertos, and Chicano Heaven 130Born in East L.A.: The Movie 138Caliente y Picante 147Performance Art 152To France with Aztlán, Babylon, Rhythm & Blues 154Validation Crisis 170Jammin’ with John Valadez 174Arts 4 City Youth and Trying Again 180UCLA 182Journey to New Aztlán 187The Enchantress 196América Tropical 200Miss Mongolia 203Teaching Poetry 207Inner City Lessons 212Teaching at UCLA 217The Neo-Chicano Tantrik Funk Monk 220Lust to Art: Mexamérica and Performing at the Getty 223The Eastside Revue: 1932–2002, A Musical Homage to Boyle Heights 228L.A. Times Profile of Boyle Heights 231Funkahuatl’s Absurd Chronicles 234The Iraq War 236Cross-cultural Friendships and Protests 238Manzanar Pilgrimage 246Yellow Pearl Remix 253Saving the Toypurina Monument 257Rock ’n’ Rights for the Mentally Disabled 260Resistance and Respect: Los Angeles Muralism and Graff Art 262Miss Bogotá and the X Festival Ibéroamericano del Teatro 264Word Up! A Word, Performance, and Theater Summit 267Meeting My Brothers from the Westbank First Nation, British Columbia 270Epiphany at Joshua Tree 274Miss Altar in the Sky 276Rubén Guevara & The Eastside Luvers 289The Tao of Funkahuatl 292Release of the Tao of Funkahuatl CD in L.A. and Japan 294MEX/LA 296Rockin’ the House of Dues and Grand Performances 299Fifty Years in Show Biz 303Miss Beijing 306Miss Monterey Park 309End of the Ten-Year Sex Drought 313Seventy and Still Running 315Platonic Homegirls 317Joseph Trotter 318A Boyle Heights Cultural Treasure 320Boyle Heights Por Vida 322¡Angelin@s Presente! 325Sara Casillas-Gutiérrez Guevara, 1923–2015 327Staged Confessions 329The Fall 332Take Me Higher, Mi Reina 334