Archive for the ‘Tantrik Funk & Soul’ Category
Press Release for “Confessions of a Radical Chicano Doo-Wop Singer”
Press Contact:Peter Perez pperez@ucpress.edu “Confessions of a Radical Chicano Doo-Wop Singer” By Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara Introduction by Josh Kun and George Lipsitz “Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara, polymath Azteca warrior, Chicano superhero, it is difficult to imagine that there was ever a Los Angeles without him. It was as if he rose with the first East Los […]
Continue Reading...My New Fiction
YURIKO & CARLOS By Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara Second place winner for the Little Tokyo Historical Society’s first annual short story contest, 2014. My first attempt at fiction. Little Tokyo, 1941 As I jogged toward Little Tokyo over the First Street Bridge from Boyle Heights, I felt the bracing power of the fiery sunset embrace me […]
Continue Reading...Webinar Series Coming Soon
“The Latinization of Art and Culture in America” “The Impact of Latin Music on US Pop Culture: From Ragtime to Rock ‘n’ Roll” An analysis of the influence of Afro-Cuban music in ragtime, jazz, boogie-woogie, rhythm & blues, rockabilly, funk, and rock ‘n’ roll. First presented at the Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism, Annenberg […]
Continue Reading...Recent Fundraising Project
¡ANGELIN@S PRESENTE! An All-Star Benefit Concert, Poetry Reading & Art Auction Honoring LA’s New Poet Laureate, Luis J. Rodriguez & Tía Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore Producer, Curator, Director Concert: John Densmore (The Doors) and Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara in a spoken word and percussion duet, Quetzal Flores, Martha Gonzalez, Sandno Flores, (Quetzal), Nobuko Miyamoto, “Atomic” […]
Continue Reading...On a panel – History of L.A. Black & Brown Musical Interaction 1/16/14 Cal State LA Music Recital Hall 3PM Free
http://www.voiceplaces.com/los-angeles/black-and-brown-interaction-in-los-angeles-latino-popular-music-history-04292301-e
Continue Reading...Neo-pachukismo y funk tantrico by Rafael Molina, MILENIO, Mexico City
Neopachukismo y funk tantrico
Continue Reading...MEX/LA Art Show: Five Things to Know by Degen Pener, The Hollywood Reporter
The MEX LA Art Show Five Things to Know
Continue Reading...Funk: 50 Years in Show Bidniss by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez
http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_focus/commentary/movie-miento/31312-ruben-guevara.html
Continue Reading...The Tao of Funkahuatl
"Amazing artwork...
amazing artistry!"
- Anthony Valadez, KCRW 89.9 FM Los Angeles"Funky and deliciously delightful!"
- Dave Marsh, The Loft (SIRIUS Satellite Radio)Buy Your Copy Today!
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Ruben Guevara
To some, Rubén Guevara (sometimes referred to as Rubén Funkahuatl Ladrón de Guevara) is most important as the man behind Ruben & the Jets, the real group that followed in the wake of the 1968 Frank Zappa album Cruising with Ruben & the Jets and left behind two of the finest rock & roll albums of the early to mid 1970s. But Guevara is so much more...-
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