"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 frontman of the 1970s experimental pop group Ruben and the Jets. Here he recounts how his youthful experiences in the barrio La V...

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1. Verfasser:	Guevara, Ruben 1942- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Oakland, California University of California Press [2018]
Schriftenreihe:	American crossroads
Schlagworte:	Guevara, Ruben Guevara, Ruben > 1942- Geschichte 1942- Rock musicians > United States > Biography Mexican American musicians > California, Southern > Biography Unterhaltungsmusiker Chicanos USA Autobiografie
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Zusammenfassung:	"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 frontman of the 1970s experimental pop group 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"...Provided by publisher
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:	xiii, 352 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:	9780520297234 9780520297227