Performance and Talk: Confessions of a Radical Chicano Doo-Wop Singer, Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara

Event Date: 

Tuesday, October 23, 2018 - 5:00pm

Event Location: 

  • MultiCultural Center Theater

Tuesday Oct 23 5pm MCC Theater 

 

Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara is a native Angelino Chicano musician, singer adn songwriter, a record producer of Chicano rock and roll and rock en español compilations, and a performance artist, poet, short story writer, historian, journalist, and activist. His newly published book Confessions of a Radical Chicano Doo-Wop Singer (University of California Press, 2018) is a moving memoir of his life and a compelling counter-history of the city of Los Angeles. 

"It is as if Rubén Fuhnkahuatl Guevara, polymath Azteca warrior and Chicano superhero, rose with the first East Los Angeles Aztl?n sun that gave creative light to the barrio." - Louie Pérez, musician, songwriter with Los Lobos 

Sponsored by the Transformative Arts Network, the Chicano Studies Institute, and the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music