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Chulas fronteras & Del mero corazon roots of Tex-Mex music

Title
  1. Chulas fronteras & Del mero corazon [videorecording] : roots of Tex-Mex music / two films by Les Blank & Chris Strachwitz.
Published by
  1. El Cerrito, Calif. : Brazos Films, c2003.

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Additional authors
  1. Blank, Les.
  2. Strachwitz, Chris.
  3. Brazos Films.
Description
  1. 1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
  1. Chulas fronteras (58 min., 1976) features the music and culture of Mexican-Americans living in southern Texas, showing food preparation, family life, dances, fieldwork, and other social activities. Del mero corazon (28 min., 1979) is a lyrical journey through the musings of the heart in the Mexican-American Nortena music tradition. Various performers are shown in dancehalls and cantinas, presenting songs of passion and death, hurt and humor, and the pleasures and torn dreams of love.
Alternative title
  1. Chulas fronteras and Del mero corazon
  2. Del mero corazon.
Subject
  1. Popular music > Mexico
  2. Popular music > Texas > 1971-1980
  3. Popular music > Mexico > 1971-1980
  4. Mexican Americans > Texas > Social life and customs
  5. Texas > Social life and customs
  6. Mexican Americans > Texas > Music
  7. Tejano music > Texas
  8. National Film Board Collection (Library of Congress)
Contents
  1. Chulas Fronteras (58 min.) -- Del Mero Corazón (28 min.) -- Lost and found bonus footage (30 min.).
Call number
  1. *LDV 120
Note
  1. Title from disc label.
System details (note)
  1. DVD.
Language (note)
  1. In Spanish and English with English and Spanish subtitles.
Title
  1. Chulas fronteras & Del mero corazon [videorecording] : roots of Tex-Mex music / two films by Les Blank & Chris Strachwitz.
Imprint
  1. El Cerrito, Calif. : Brazos Films, c2003.
System details
  1. DVD.
Language
  1. In Spanish and English with English and Spanish subtitles.
Added author
  1. Blank, Les.
  2. Strachwitz, Chris.
  3. Brazos Films.
Added title
  1. Del mero corazon.
Other standard identifier
  1. 794819010496
Publisher no.
  1. BF-104 Brazos Films
Research call number
  1. *LDV 120 Notes on file
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