Lowrider Oldies: The Unofficial Soundtrack to the Chicano Experience
Revisiting Allen Thayer's landmark piece on Chicano soul music and connecting the past to the present
Recently my homeboy, known online at Raza Del Soul, posted a memory on his Instagram, which was an article from 2011 published by Wax Poetics that, among other things, talks about how doo-wop and soul music has been the unofficial soundtrack of the Chicano experience. My friend, along with others, was featured in the article and in the photographs that …
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