Ruben Funkahuatl Guevara

My UC Press Site

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520297234/confessions-of-a-radical-chicano-doo-wop-singer#.XPI72f2JKtg.email

Reading and Singing at Beyond Baroque, 06.30.19. 7pm. Free

“Confessions Of A Radical Chicano Doo-Wop Singer” A Finalist

Selected for Best Autobiography in English by the 2019 International Latino Book Awards competition. (05.31.19)

“Confessions Of A Radical Chicano Doo-Wop Singer” (UC Press) 2018, 2019, 2020 “XikanosauruX Speaks” Book Tour

2018, 2019, 2020 BOOK TOUR: MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCE / READINGS / SIGNINGS / TALKS: WINTER, 2020 University of Michigan Hosted by professors Ashley Lucas and Colin Gunckel Multi-Media Performance Reading / Lecture  La Casa, Latino Students Association Ann Arbor, MI (02.06.2020) Wayne State University Hosted by professor M.L. Liebler Multi-Media Performance Reading / Lecture  Two English […]

Ruben Funkahuatl Guevara: The Chicano Culture Sculptor

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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” […]

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