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Dame la Mano
Date: 1/1/2004Call Number: V 290Format: VHSProducers: Heddy HonigmannCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
On Sunday nights, Union City's La Esquina Habanera restaurant is the place to be for New Jersey's Cuban community. Here, professional and amateur dancers gyrate to the sensual and spirited rhythms of the rumba, a dance veteran practitioners credit for everything from curing cancer to sexual vigor in old age.
Award-winning Dutch documentarian Heddy Honigmann listens to the stories of several Cuban exiles in this joyous cinematic celebration of Latin life, music, and dance that culminates with an exuberant nightclub finale.
Californians of Mexican descent; Program #6 Their dances and artists, Reel 1 of 2
Date: 6/5/1963Call Number: CE 651Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Collin B. EdwardsProgram: Californians of Mexican descentCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Explores the instruments and dances from Mexico and how they are utilized in Mexican American communities. Musical samples and interviews included.
Californians of Mexican descent; Program #2: The culture they brought.
Date: 5/8/1963Call Number: CD 846Format: CDProducers: Collin B. EdwardsProgram: Californians of Mexican descentCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Explores the culture that Mexican immigrants represent - visual art, architecture, and music. Discusses Spanish America and colonial impact on Indigenous peoples, the impact of Catholicism on art/culture, folk culture, and the issue of what is really Mexican culture versus European culture is raised.
Discussion of the culture and skills Mexicans brought to California: dance, the question of Native influence, metal and leather craftsmanship, stone cutting and mining techniques, agricultural knowledge, irrigation.
Californians of Mexican descent; Program #6 Their dances and artists.
Date: 6/5/1963Call Number: CD 850Format: CDProducers: Collin B. EdwardsProgram: Californians of Mexican descentCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Explores the instruments and dances from Mexico and how they are utilized in Mexican American communities. Musical samples and interviews included.
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