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2. List of Chicano films - Wikipedia

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   Luis Valdez directed I Am Joaquin (1969), Zoot Suit (1981), and others. Sylvia Morales directed Chicana (1979), A Crushing Love (2009), and others. Edward James Olmos directed American Me (1992) and The Devil Has a Name (2019) Cheech Marin directed Born in East L.A. (1987)

3. Rock and roll revival - Wikipedia

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   In 1977 and 1978, British band The Darts scored three top-10 singles on the UK charts with covers of early rock/doo-wop oldies. The popularity of the movement peaked with the release of the George Lucas film, American Graffiti, in 1973, with the soundtrack featuring rock and doo-wop hits from the late 1950s and early 1960s. By the mid-1970s ...

4. Chicano rock - Wikipedia

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   Chicano rock music was also influenced by the Doo-wop genre, an example being the song "Angel Baby" by the Chicana fronted group Rosie and the Originals. [6] Don Tosti's Pachuco Boogie, recorded in 1948, was the first Chicano million-selling record, [7] a swing tune featuring Spanish lyrics, using hipster slang called Calo. Lalo Guerrero ...

5. Chicano cinema - Wikipedia

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   Movies like Boulevard Nights (1979) and Walk Proud (1979) were early examples of Chicano gang culture representation in film which highlighted Chicano masculinity and loyalty. [25] In the 1980s, the movies Zoot Suit (1981), Stand and Deliver (1988), and Colors (1988) each had gang related thematic elements, addressing the "troubled Chicano ...

6. Doo Wop 50 - Wikipedia

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   Doo Wop 50 is a television and DVD special created and produced by TJ Lubinsky. The special was inspired by a 1994 CD box-set of doo wop music which was also a development and production partner WQED in the program and dvd. It aired in December 1999.

7. Cruising with Ruben & the Jets - Wikipedia

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   Cruising with Ruben & the Jets is the fourth album by the Mothers of Invention, and fifth overall by Frank Zappa, released under the alias Ruben and the Jets. [4] Released on December 2, 1968 on Bizarre and Verve Records with distribution by MGM Records, it is a concept album, influenced by 1950s doo-wop and rock and roll.

8. Brown-eyed soul - Wikipedia

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   Brown-eyed soul, also referred to as Chicano soul, Hispanic soul, or Latino soul, is soul music & rhythm & blues (R&B) performed in the United States mainly by Hispanic Latinos and Chicanos in Southern California, East Los Angeles, and San Antonio (Texas) during the 1960s, continuing through to the early 1980s. [1]

9. Doo-wop - Wikipedia

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   Doo-wop is popular among barbershoppers and collegiate a cappella groups due to its easy adaptation to an all-vocal form. Doo-wop experienced a resurgence in popularity at the turn of the 21st century with the airing of PBS's doo-wop concert programs: Doo Wop 50, Doo Wop 51, and Rock, Rhythm, and Doo Wop. These programs brought back, live on ...