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Summer 2009: Featuring Folklife Festival traditions



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Tradiciones/Traditions: The Expanding Universe of Música Latina

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, Nuyorican, Cuban, nuevomexicano, salvadoreño, colombiano, dominicano, and more to point to their Spanish-speaking heritage in Latin America or the United States....
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Los Texmaniacs

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

Music of Central Asia: Tengir-Too

Mountain Music of Kyrgyzstan and Classical Music of the Tajiks and Uzbeks
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Meredydd Evans: Welsh Folk Songs

Meredydd Evans: Welsh Folk Songs

In 1954, Meredydd Evans recorded his landmark album Welsh Folk Songs...
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Son de Madera explains son jarocho; music for Improvisation
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