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Confessions of a Radical Chicano Doo-Wop Singer (Hardcover)
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Confessions of a Radical Chicano Doo-Wop Singer (Hardcover)
Series: American Crossroads, 51
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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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