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PRAISE FOR CONFESSIONS OF A RADICAL CHICANO DOO-WOP SINGER

I relate to Rubn Funkahuatl Guevara not because he spent his early youth in Santa Monica like me, not because we went through the 60s side by side on the Sunset Strip, but because he is obsessed with the creative process. Its in his blood. He gets sidetracked by constantly, impulsively, being caught under the spell of the Goddess, but art is his lifeline as it is mine. Respect.

JOHN DENSMORE , author of Riders on the Storm: My Life with Jim Morrison and the Doors

Rubn Funkahuatl Guevara, L.A.s irrepressible impresario and culture sculptor, is a generous mentor and consummate collaborator. In these pages, he takes us on a candid tour of the steps and missteps that have shaped his outlook, creativity, and public productions. Part confessional, part manifesto, these writings map his evolution, through family migrations, rock n roll highs, personal lows, and collaborations with diverse activists and artists. With a keen sense of history, and mining his compulsions and desires with candor, Guevara has penned a powerful love letter to his greatest muse of all, his beloved, unpredictable city of multihued angels.

SOJIN KIM, CURATOR , Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage

Hilarious and heartbreaking, Guevaras memoir chronicles decades of artistic and spiritual fire. I cannot recommend this work highly enough as a wonderful and wonder-filled resource for students of multicultural Los Angeles, Chicano masculinities and identities, the music industry, performance art, and spiritual seekers in the Southwest. Since it is a treat to read and a joy to teach, I urge my colleagues to share Confessions of a Radical Chicano Doo-Wop Singer with their students.

JACQUELINE M. HIDALGO , author of Revelation in Aztln: Scriptures, Utopias, and the Chicano Movement

With provocative observations and original insights, this illuminating musical history also incorporates poetry, performance, and education. Guevara engagingly chronicles a lifetime of financial and emotional ups and downs with honesty and vulnerability. As a meditative funk monk, Guevara treats art as a political-spiritual calling.

ANTHONY MACAS , author of Mexican American Mojo: Popular Music, Dance, and Urban Culture in Los Angeles, 19351968

A man sings and in his singing he carries the grace, pains, missteps, and triumphs of his life. Guevaras memoir is such a song de aquellas y beyond. A con safos defiance against systemic injustices and erasures of Chicanos and all oppressed people, Guevaras book is also flesh and bone, blood and brains, beauty and truth. Sing on, brother, sing on.

LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ , author of Always Running: La Vida LocaGang Days in L.A.

Guevara utilizes intimate vignettes and inspiring poetry to chart his personal and artistic evolution into an artivist, a socially committed artist. His memoir is also an invaluable academic resource, documenting an extensive yet long-ignored history of L.A.s cross-cultural artistic hybridity and the sociopolitical contributions exemplified by Guevaras fifty-year career.

TEREZITA ROMO , author of Malaquias Montoya

Rubn Funkahuatl Guevara, polymath Azteca warrior and Chicano superheroit is difficult to imagine that there was ever a Los Angeles without him. It was as if he rose with the first East Los Aztln sun that gave creative light to the barrio. In this book, Guevara gives us the opportunity to grab hold of his belt loop and walk with him through his sometimes glad and sometimes sad but always inspiring life. Hang on tight.

LOUIE PREZ , musician, songwriter with Los Lobos

Rocks greatest untold story is Chicano rock, and doo-wop is its bedrock. Guevara, with his long experience and deep commitment to both the sound and the Chicano community, is the perfect writer to tell the tale. Hes one hell of a storyteller, too, and this is one hell of a story.

DAVE MARSH , veteran of Creem Magazine and Rolling Stone and biographer of Bruce Springsteen

Confessions of a Radical Chicano Doo-Wop Singer

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MURIEL CARTER HANLEY

whose intellect and sensitivity
have enriched the many lives
that she has touched.

The publisher and the University of California Press Foundation gratefully acknowledge the generous support of the Simpson Imprint in Humanities.

AMERICAN CROSSROADS

Edited by Earl Lewis, George Lipsitz, George Snchez, Dana Takagi, Laura Briggs, and Nikhil Pal Singh

Confessions of a Radical Chicano Doo-Wop Singer

Rubn Funkahuatl Guevara

With an introduction by

George Lipsitz and Josh Kun

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

University of California Press, one of the most distinguished university presses in the United States, enriches lives around the world by advancing scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Its activities are supported by the UC Press Foundation and by philanthropic contributions from individuals and institutions. For more information, visit www.ucpress.edu.

University of California Press

Oakland, California

2018 by Rubn Funkahuatl Guevara

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Guevara, Ruben, author.

Title: Confessions of a radical Chicano doo-wop singer / Rubn Funkahuatl Guevara ; with an introduction by George Lipsitz and Josh Kun.

Description: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index. |

Identifiers: LCCN 2017049896 (print) | LCCN 2017054483 (ebook) | ISBN 9780520969667 (Epub) | ISBN 9780520297227 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780520297234 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH : Guevara, Ruben. | Rock musiciansUnited StatesBiography. | Mexican American musiciansCalifornia, SouthernBiography.

Classification: LCC ML 420.G925 (ebook) | LCC ML 420. G 925 A 3 2018 (print) | DDC 782.42166092 [s B]dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017049896

Manufactured in the United States of America

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Dedicated to my family

The memory of my beloved parents: Sara Casillas-Gutirrez Guevara and Rubn Ladrn de Guevara Sr.

Sisters: Linda Marie Guevara-Reid, Bonita Sara Guevara-Mavros, Loretta Vickie Guevara-Vanni, and their families

Brothers: Mariano, Miguel, and Rafael Ladrn de Guevara, and their families

Sons: Ben L. Guevara and family, Rubn G. Guevara III and family

Daughter: G.B.G.

Cousin: Doa Marie Guevara-Hill and family

Cristina, Adriana, and Gabriel Shallcross and family; Bob and Chata Manley and family; ta Hortencia, Adriana, and Blanca Rivera and family

The Casillas, Gutirrez, Becerra, Primo, and Galvn families, from barrio La Veinte, Ese Eme, Santa Monica

c/s

What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.

CHARLES BUKOWSKI

There is always something left to love.

LORRAINE HANSBERRY

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