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Soul first edition only 2000 Printed $25.00 plus S&H Chicano Soul: Recordings And History Of An American Culture is the first comprehensive, intimate look at the music that was lovingly created by Chicanos from throughout the American Southwest. It's a story about the music and the cultural cauldron that created it. This music of the 1950s and 1960s flourished during a time when Soul music was the "hip thing" and garage bands sprang up throughout the Southwest, from the Westside of San Antonio to the bustling barrios of Los Angeles. These young musicians fused the music of their parents' homeland with the soulful rhythms flowing from Philadelphia, Memphis, New Orleans and Detroit. For the first time, all of the great groups of the Southwest tell their story and reveal what the Chicano has always known – that Soul music runs through our veins. Take a peek inside the book click on the pages 15 17 67 115 |
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Third edition 184 pages (16 added since 2nd edition), 8 full color printed on heavy 8# glossy paper and a 14# matte finished cover 1000 printed (only about 100 left). Autographed on your request. Price $22.00 plus S&H
Since
the forties Mexican-American teens have been drawn to
African-American music of all kinds. jazz, rhythm and blues,
group harmony (doo-wop), soul, funk and most recently rap
and hip hop. Since the mid-fifties one group in particular
the pachuco
a.k.a. cholo
has adopted select R&B grinders and tearjerkers (ballads) to
provide the sound track for his most prized possession, the
low rider.
Early on it was the
sound of Don Julian, Jesse Belvin, the Velvetones and
Shirley and Lee. It was the sound of El Monte Legion
Stadium, Art Laboe, the Shrine Auditorium and Huggy Boy and
the sound of Whittier Blvd. By the early sixties homeboys
and homegirls were digging the sounds of the Metallics,
Billy Stewart, the Blendtones and the up and coming East
Side Sound of the Romancers, the Premiers, Thee Midniters
and Cannibal and the Headhunters. When disco took the world
by storm in the early seventies the homeboys stayed true to
those R&B tunes now known as "Oldies but Goodies" a term
coined by Art Laboe in 1958. The hey day of the barrio low rider has passed. Southern California's cruising spots like Whittier Blvd., Van Nuys, and San Fernando's Mission Park have been closed to cruising since around 1975. Teen dances are also a thing of the past and "oldies" stations are dedicated to the Beatles and Beach Boys.
However, the underground market for sixties and
seventies R&B and soul has produced a new phase in the low
rider sound.
Seven years of
research and hard work have produced the first book ever to
chronicle the music of the low rider. Interviews with artist
and record company owners like Frankie Karl, George Kerr,
Weldon McDougal (Harthon), Chuck Corby, Richard Poindexter,
Freddie Hughes, Mickey Lespron (El Chicano), Little Ray
Jimenez, Tommy Turner, Chris Ollan (Natural Four), Joe
Evans, Gene Dozier, Skip Mahoney, Sunny Ozuna, Jimmy Pipkin
(Gallahads), Art Laboe, Huggy Boy, Jimmy Conwell and Anthony
Renfro plus many others have helped to make this book one of
a kind. Listed in alphabetical order by artist the book
supplies all group members, group or artist history, city of
origin and a low rider discography. The new third edition
also includes a list of CD's where every song can be found.
Approx 140 artist photos and several Southern California
dance posters and flyers from the fifties and sixties are
included. |
