Confessions of a Radical Chicano Doo-Wop Singer EPUB
by Ruben Funkahuatl Guevara
Part of the American Crossroads series
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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, Guevaraan American artist of Mexican descentembraces 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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- Pages:376 pages
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:13/04/2018
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:376 pages
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:13/04/2018
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- ISBN:9780520969667