TY - GEN TY - GEN T1 - Confessions of a radical Chicano doo-wop singer T2 - American crossroads A1 - Guevara, Ruben, kirjoittaja A2 - Lipsitz, George, esipuheen kirjoittaja A2 - Kun, Josh, esipuheen kirjoittaja LA - eng PP - Oakland, California PB - University of California Press YR - 2018 UL - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5451047 AB - "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. SN - 978-0-520-29722-7 sidottu SN - 978-0-520-29723-4 nidottu KW - Guevara, Rubén, : 1942- KW - Rock musicians : United States : Biography. KW - Mexican American musicians : California, Southern : Biography. KW - rock KW - populaarimusiikki KW - latinalaisamerikkalainen populaarimusiikki KW - latinalaisamerikkalaiset KW - chicanot KW - henkilöhistoria KW - muusikot KW - Yhdysvallat ER -