THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA: RICARDO ROMO ON THE VIRGEN DE GUADALUPE AND EARLY MEXICAN NATIONALISM, MAKE GUERRERO’S EAST L.A. STORIES WITH FRED RIVERA, HECTOR GONZALEZ ON CANNIBAL AND THE HEADHUNTERS, AND MIS PENSAMIENTOS WITH ALFREDO SANTOS.
We begin this week’s Latinopia with a look at the early religious movement around the Virgin de Guadalupe and how it came to shape the national Mexican identity. Romo recounts how this important religious and social force was used during the Farm Worker’s Movement of the 1960s and the Chicano civil rights movement. A fascinating history of how religion works in the lives of believers and shapes history.
Mark Guerrero returns with his East Los Angeles Music Stories. This is an on-going series of interviews with pioneering music makers of the 1960s and 1970s. This week he interviews Fred Rivera, bassist for a number of East Los Angeles groups and an author of a major work about his experiences in Vietnam.
And complementing Mark’s interview is a Latinopia video interview with music producer Hector Gonzalez on how the famous Nah,nah,nah song by Cannibal and the Headhunters came about and how it become a national hit in the 1960s.
We hear from Alfred Santos, in his latest Mis Pensamientos column. This week he reports on some sad news about his current health condition but we are happy to see that he doesn’t let this get in the way of editing and publishing his monthly newspaper, La Voz. To read the full edition of La Voz visit: www.lavoznewspapers.com
Enjoy your week on Latinopia!
Tia Tenopia