Sounds Tags Used in Events

Sometimes people in Texas marvel at how few others have heard the Tejano Conjunto music that they are so passionate about.

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I am a good miner. I have a clever nose for the metals. But I beat up the boss and they kicked me out.

As Bread and Roses opens, its heroine, Maya Montenegro, played by Pilar Padilla, survives a dramatic border crossing.

Hi, is Rosa in? Yeah, Hold On. Mami! Que? Hay alguien en la puerta-

Hi, I'm Sam Shapiro, the Justice for Janitors campaign.

I'm Rosa, Justice for Rosa's campaign.

There is every chance you can get fired. I've seen it before. What are you going to do? Pay the rent? Feed my kids?

And you? You better keep away from this nice one. Listen, they will fire anyway!

Si se puede, si se puede, si se puede...

In this scene at a union celebration, the music is provided by Los Jornaleros del Norte, five men who haven't quit their real life day jobs.

They're members of L.A.'s day laborers union and they play their topical songs at labor and immigrant rights events.

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Where's our warm-up coach? I'm just, I'm getting everybody. Do you want any more people?

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Teatro Campesino is corazón de la gente. It's what our soul is about and it touches it.

I've always thought of Teatro Campesino as being the mirror image of us.

There's a lot of theater all over the country, but there's only one, El Teatro Campesino.

To whom it may concern, there is an interest in establishing a bilingual community farm workers theater.

The primary aim of this theater would be to belong to the workers themselves.

It is time the Raza landed the artistic blow it is capable of giving.

Those interested in attending an organizational meeting, please sign below.

[Chanting] Huelga! Huelga!

We're at the Teatro Campesino, the farmworkers theater from Delano, California. And we've come here this evening to tell you the story of our strike, our huelga, and of our union, the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO led by Cesar Chavez.

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Teatro and the struggle really made a difference for us. Luis was able to get people who had been on strike three months, four months, six months a year to laugh at their own conditions, to look at themselves, and to join with us laughing about the injustices and the growers who were committing those injustices against them.

Teatro had a tremendous impact, and one of the factors why we won that strike, because it gave people the courage and the vision, and also made it possible for them to laugh at themselves during a hard, hard struggle.

[Singing] Campesinos Mexicanos, Americanos de Color, Puerto Rico...

[Singing] Viva la virgen de guadalupe, viva nuestra union!

Words never seen printed in my life. Words that I had heard all my life. Words that only could come from the heart and the passion and the understanding of the finest who command the language.

I said, my lord, que le wacha mis trapos, ese?

Ladies and gentlemen, the moment you're about to see is a construct of fact and fantasy. But relax, weigh the facts, and enjoy the pretense.

Our Pachuco realities will only make sense if you grasp their stylization. It was a secret fantasy for Vivato, living in or out of the Pachucada, to put on the Zoot Suit and play the myth. Pues Orale!

This is the fact, the fantasy, the music, the myth, the magic, the movie. Zoot Suit. Universal Pictures presents Zoot Suit, an American Original.

[Music] Oh, Donna, oh, Donna, oh, Donna, oh, Donna.

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Lots of desert animals would raid it if they could. They can't because cacti, like desert succulents everywhere, defend themselves with spines.

[Music] In Old New Mexico, way before the advent of the railroad, candle flames danced in tin sconces on white plaster walls. Tin flames lit the faces of Christian saints. Tin crosses led processions of worship.

In those days, traders brought in small tin items. Then in the mid-1800s, the railroads began to haul in large sheets of tin. It became plentiful for the first time, inspiring the golden days of tin making for the next 75 years.

Sadly, we don't know much about tin's history. Few artists signed their work, and much of it has been lost. But today, tin making is popular once again in New Mexico.

[Music] It's a musical hybrid.

Electrónica meets down-home Mexican music. [Music]

This is Tijuana. Come in.

This musical fusion is called Nortec, Norteño and Techno.

With us today to talk about this rare mix of language and music are Javier Palacios and Kamran Hooshmand, who perform together as the group Ojala.

[Singing] Cucurrucucú Paloma. Cucurrucucú no llores.

That's right. And what you will find interesting is that that song actually originally was a Persian love song that Javier translated the lyrics into Spanish. [Music]

Gracias a ti.

I like to be in America, okay by me in America, everything free in America. For a small fee in America.