Selected Bibliography of East L.A. Music

Compiled by Rubén Funkahautl Guevara

Villa, Raúl Homero. 2000. Barrio Logos: Space and Place in Urban Chicano Literature and Culture, Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.

Kun, Josh. 2005. Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America, Berkeley, CA: UC Press.

Loza, Steven. 1993. Barrio Rhythm: Mexican American Music in Los Angeles. Urbana and Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press.

Reyes, David and Tom Waldman. 1998. Land of a Thousand Dances: Chicano Rock 'n' Roll from Southern California. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press.

Guevara, Rubén. 1985. "The View from the Sixth Street Bridge: A History of Chicano Rock." In The First Rock and Roll Confidential Report: Inside the Real World of Rock & Roll. Eds. David Marsh, et. al. New York: Pantheon Books.

_______.1985. "The Ballad of East Los Angeles." In The Hip Pocket Guide To L.A, Eds. Tim and Vanessa Page. Harper/Colophon Books.

_______.1990. "Beyond La Bamba: A History of L.A. Latin Rock." In L.A. Style Magazine.

_______.1989. "Aztlan, Babylon, Rhythm & Blues." In the L.A. Weekly, part of the series, "A Pilgrim's Progress," Ed. Rubén Martínez.

Perez, Louis. 1997. "Weird Hair Pendejolandia." In Make the Music Go Bang!: The Early L.A. Punk Scene. Ed. Don Snowden, photography by Gary Leonard. New York: St. Martin's Griffin.

Lipsitz, George. 1990. "Cruising around the Historical Bloc." In Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture, 133-162. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.