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Lowrider Oldies: The Unofficial Soundtrack to the Chicano Experience

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

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Mar 12, 2023
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Lowrider Oldies: The Unofficial Soundtrack to the Chicano Experience
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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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