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"Corazón abierto: Mexican American voices in Texas music provides a wide view of the myriad contributions Mexican American artists have made to music in Texas and the United States. Based on interviews with longtime stalwarts of Mexican American music -- Flaco Jimenez, Tish Hinojosa, Ernie Durawa, Rosie Flores, and others -- and also conversations with newer voices like Lesly Reynaga, Marisa Rose Mejia, Josh Baca, and many more, Kathleen Hudson allows the musicians to tell their own stories in a unique and personal way. As the artists reveal in their free-ranging discussions with Hudson, their influences go far beyond traditionally Mexican genres like conjunto, norteño, and Tejano to extend into rock, jazz, country-western, zydeco, and many other styles. Hudson's survey also includes essays, poetry, and other creative works by Dagoberto Gilb, Sandra Cisneros, and others, but the core of the book consists of what she describes as 'a collection of voices from different locations in Texas. . . . Some represent voices from the edge, while others give us a view from the center.' Weaving together a tapestry that combines 'family, borders, creativity, music, food, and community,' the book presents an image as varied and difficult to define as the musicians themselves. By sharing the artists' accounts of their influences, their experiences, their family stories, and their musical and cultural journeys, Corazón abierto reminds us that borders can be gateways, that differences enrich, rather than isolate"--
Tejano (Musique) --- Americains d'origine mexicaine --- Musiciens americains d'origine mexicaine --- Tejano music --- Mexican Americans --- Mexican American musicians --- Histoire et critique. --- History and criticism. --- Texas. --- Texas --- Moeurs et coutumes. --- Social life and customs.
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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 front man of the 1970s experimental rock band 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.
Mexican American musicians --- Rock musicians --- Musicians, Mexican American --- Musicians --- Guevara, Ruben. --- de Guevara, Rubén Funkahuatl Ladrón --- Guevara, Rubén Funkahuatl --- 1940s. --- aesthetic experience. --- american artist. --- barrio la veinte of santa monica. --- becoming an artist. --- bo diddley. --- brushes with stardom. --- celia cruz. --- chicano identity. --- chicano rock. --- frank zappa. --- johnny otis. --- liberation. --- mexican american people. --- mexican descent. --- music. --- ruben and the jets. --- self critical. --- success in music. --- tina turner. --- triumphs.
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