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Confessions of a Radical Chicano Doo-Wop Singer /

"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 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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Guevara, Ruben (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue
  • La Veinte: a Santa Monica barrio
  • Ruben Ladrón de Guevara Sr., 1914-2006
  • 1742 22nd Street, Barrio La Veinte, Santa Monica
  • Palm Springs / Cathedral City / Las Vegas
  • Binnie
  • La Gatita
  • Las Vegas : breakup of the family
  • Sue Dean
  • Beverly
  • Shindig! with Tina Turner and Bo Diddley, 1965
  • The Sunset Strip riots
  • The southern belle
  • LACC / The New Revelations Gospel Choir
  • Miss Santa Barbara
  • Frank Zappa / Ruben And The Jets / Rock 'n' Roll Angels / 1972-1974
  • Miss Pamela & the G.T.O.'s (Girls Together Outrageously)
  • Miss Claremont
  • Miss Chino
  • The mutiny
  • The movie star and Miss Blue Eyes
  • We open for Zappa at Winterland, San Francisco, April, 1973
  • Con Safos the album
  • Mexico / Hollywood / The Whisky / Eastside Revue / Zyanya Records
  • La gypsy
  • The Star Spangled Banner / America the Beautiful
  • The Whisky / Con Safos the band, 1980
  • Miss Aztlán
  • Gotcha
  • Zyanya Records
  • Cristina / Día de Los Muertos / Chicano Heaven
  • Born in East L.A.
  • the movie
  • HBO/Cinemax special
  • Performance art : Mexico and France
  • La quemada
  • La rebel
  • Jammin' with Johnny
  • Arts 4 City Youth
  • UCLA
  • Journey to New Aztlán
  • Miss San Francisco : the enchantress
  • Miss Mongolia
  • Metropolitan State Hospital
  • Trinity Elementary School
  • Teaching at UCLA
  • Miss Tokyo
  • Mexamerica the CD
  • The Eastside Revue : a musical homage to Boyle Heights, 1922-2002
  • Boyle Heights, LA Times
  • Collaborations with Josh Kun
  • The Iraq war
  • Collaborations with Nobuko Miyamoto / Great Leap / NCRR / MPAC
  • Manzanar pilgrimage
  • Yellow Pearl remix
  • Minutemen protest in Baldwin Park
  • Rock 'n' rights : rockin' for the mentally disabled
  • Resistance & respect : Los Angeles muralism & graff art
  • Miss Bogotá
  • Word up! a performance and theater summit at the Ford, 2006
  • Meeting my Okanagan brothers from Westbank First Nation, B.C. Canada
  • Epiphany at Joshua Tree
  • Miss Altar in the sky
  • Ruben Guevara & the Eastside Luvers
  • The Tao of Funkahuatl
  • The Tao of Funkahuatl the CD
  • Mex/LA
  • Opening for Los Lobos at the House of Dues
  • Fifty years in show biz / The Madeleine Brand Show, NPR, 2011
  • Miss Beijing
  • Miss Monterey Park
  • End of ten year sex drought
  • My 70th birthday party
  • Platonic homegirls
  • Joseph Trotter
  • A Boyle Heights cultural treasure
  • The new face of Boyle Heights
  • Angelin@s presente!
  • Sara Guevara
  • Confessions of a radical Chicano Doo Wop singer : the solo, multi-media theater piece
  • The fall
  • Reflections on L.A.