Chicano Power!
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| Chicano Power! | |
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| Compilation album | |
| Released | September 1998 |
| Length | 76:05[1] |
| Label | Soul Jazz |
| Compiler | Stuart Baker[2] |
Chicano Power! (subtitled: Latin Rock In The USA 1968-1976) is a 1998 compilation album released by Soul Jazz Records. The album contains Latin bands predominantly from the United States during the late 1960s and 1970s who combined rock, jazz and Latin music. The album was released to positive reception from online music database AllMusic, but to more indifferent or mixed reviews from The Guardian and the NME.
Chicano Power is a compilation album that focuses on Latin bands throughout the United States who combined rock, jazz, and Latin music in the late 1960s and 1970s.[1] Richie Unterberger of AllMusic noted that despite the title, the album contained music beyond Mexican-American bands from Los Angeles and San Francisco, but also Puerto Rican-American groups and artists from New York and Miami.[1] The music is primarily protest songs.[3]
