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Los Crudos handbills and posters
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Collection
Identifier: MSS 476
Scope and Contents
The Los Crudos Handbills and Posters includes 21 handbills and 5 larger posters for the Los Crudos, an all-Latino punk band from Chicago that began in 1991. Most are xeroxed, with a few being offset printed.
Dates
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright is retained by the authors of the items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law. For photocopy and duplication requests, please contact the Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections, Michigan State University Libraries.
Biographical / Historical
Los Crudos' music and reputation straddled both the straight edge and crusty punk scenes. The band began in 1991, in Chicago's predominantly Latino Pilsen neighborhood. The group's music was typical of the hardcore punk scene--short, fast and loud--with lyrics that focused on class, police brutality, homophobia and immigrant
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Los Crudos
American hardcore punk band
Not to be confused with Crudos or Crudo.
For other uses, see Crudo (disambiguation).
Los Crudos is an American hardcore punk band from Chicago, Illinois active from 1991 to 1998 and from 2006 onward.[1][2][3] Comprising all Latino members, the band paved the way for later Spanish-speaking punk bands in the United States[2] and helped to increase the presence of Latinos in the country's predominantly white punk subculture.[4] They have been described as "one of '90s punk's truly great bands"[5] and "one of the greatest hardcore bands...ever." [6] Paul Kennedy additionally describes them as "very popular in both the 'crusty' scenes in North America."[7]
History
The band formed in the early 1990s[1] by singer Martin Sorrondeguy and guitarist José Casas, who remained the group's consistent members through changing rhythm sections. Their lyrics were almost always sung in Spanish; the song "We're That Spic Band" (written in response to an aud
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Los Crudos collection, 1991-1998.
Collection Number: 7790
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Los Crudos collection, 1991-1998.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
7790
Abstract:
40 items including posters, flyers, handbills, lyric sheets, LP inserts, record covers, audiocassette tape covers, and other ephemera, documenting the band's performances in Brazil, Canada, France, Japan, and Mexico, as well as in many U.S. cities. Included is the flyer for the band's first performance in 1991, as well as the poster for its final concert in 1998, which is an original linocut print produced by the noted gallery and printmaking workshop Taller Mestizarte. Also included are one issue of the zine Conexion rockeria (Broadville, Illinois); an original artwork using photocopy, two-color serigraphy and collage, for the cover of a 45 rpm extended play record, Las injusticias caen como pesadillas (1993); and a flyer for a Los Crudos concert in Santiago de Queretaro, Mexico, with ques
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