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...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...“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...¡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” […]
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Continue Reading...The Tao, or, the way of Funkahuatl is the merging of spirit, sex, funk, and soul on the path to the Beloved while living your life as a work of art. Tastes of Tantra, Taoism, Sufism, Pachukismo, the Sixth Dalai [“Lover”] Lama, and Rhythm & Blues, tantalize. You know Marvin Gaye advised and pleaded, “We gotta get […]
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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...
