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Extent:
1 Sound recording (digital audio file)
Type:
Archival materials
Sound recordings
Date:
2016 July 02
Scope and Contents:
Amy Vivian Kitchener (presenter); Emilano Flores; Eric Flores; Pedro Flores; Felix Morales; Juan Carlos Morales; Jose Luis Ramos; Raul Lopez (participants) This intergenerational group of musicians and dancers represent the Mixteco (indigenous Oaxacan) farmworker communities of the San Joaquin Valley Banda Brillo de San Miguel Cuevas is a wind band formed in Fresno. The group's repertoire includes the most popular Mixtec dance rhythm, the chilena, plus a wide range of traditional regional Mexican and Oaxacan music, including rancheras, boleros, marches, and polkas. Nuu Yuku/Danza de los Diablos de San Miguel Cuevas .is a dance group who performs danza de los diablos, or dance of the devils, which represents a ized local tradition unique to San Miguel Cuevas in the Juxtlahuaca district of the Mixteca Baja in northern Oaxaca, Mexico.
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.
