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Summer 2009
Folkife Festival Traditions
  • Tradiciones / Traditions
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    Tradiciones / Traditions

    The Expanding Universe of Música Latina

    Over 45 million people of Hispanic descent make the United States their home. One out of eight Americans uses such labels as hispano, Latino, tejano, Chicano, mexicano...

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  • Los Texmaniacs, Borders y Bailes
    Artist Spotlight
    Los Texmaniacs, Borders y Bailes

    The accordion-driven conjunto tejano and its music emerged from the rural, small-town...

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  • Music of Central Asia: Tengir-Too
    From the Field
    Music of Central Asia: Tengir-Too

    Mountain Music of Kyrgyzstan and Classical Music of the Tajiks and Uzbeks...

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  • Linda Griffiths (Aberystwyth, Wales) and her daughter, Lisa Healy, are accompanied by Ceri Rhys Matthews (Pencader, Wales).
    Archive Spotlight
    Meredydd Evans: Welsh Folk Songs

    In 1954, Meredydd Evans recorded his landmark album Welsh Folk Songs...

    Gallery
  • Son de Madera explains son jarocho; music for Improvisation
    video spotlight
    Son de Madera Performs Son Jarocho

    The improvisatory, string-driven music of Veracruz called son jarocho has enjoyed several decades of major resurgence. This "back-to-the-future" recording allies elder farmer and rancher musicians with the next generation of forward-looking innovators who comprise the group Son de Madera. Son de Mi Tierra ("They are from my land") burgeons with creativity and reverence for both the old and the new as it draws from rural roots to produce fresh interpretations of this popular Mexican regional music.

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Credits

Published June 2009

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Special Thanks

  • Pat Campbell, University of Washington
    Sydney Hutchinson, Syracuse University
    Ray Allen, Brooklyn College, CUNY

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