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Title Chulas Fronteras / Brazos Films presents ; conceived and produced by Chris Strachwitz ; a film by Les Blank
Published [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (1streaming video file (58 min.)): sound, color
Summary A complex, insightful look at the Chicano experience as mirrored in the lives and music of the most acclaimed Norteno musicians of the Texas-Mexican border, including Flaco Jimenez and Lydia Mendoza. Documents the importance of music in all areas of the people's lives, work, play, celebrations, and death. Selected for The Library Of Congress, National Film Registry of motion pictures, (to be preserved in perpetuity.) (In color)
Notes Duration: 58 minutes
Title from title frames
Titles and credits from screen
Credits Camera, Les Blank ; editors, Les Blank, Maureen Gosling
Event Originally produced by Les Blank Films in 1976
Notes English dialgue with Spanish subtitles and Spanish dialogue with English subtitles
Subject Mexican Americans -- Texas -- Social life and customs
Popular music -- Texas -- 1971-1980
Popular music -- Mexico -- 1971-1980
Tejano music -- Texas
Mexican Americans -- Texas -- Music.
Manners and customs.
Mexican Americans.
Mexican Americans -- Social life and customs.
Popular music.
Tejano music.
SUBJECT Texas -- Social life and customs
Subject Mexico.
Texas.
Genre/Form Documentary films.
Internet videos.
Music.
Nonfiction films.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Internet videos.
Documentaires.
Films autres que de fiction.
Vidéos sur Internet.
Form Streaming video
Author Blank, Les, filmmaker.
Strachwitz, Chris, filmmaker.
Gosling, Maureen, editor of moving image work.
Brazos Films, profuction company.
Kanopy (Firm), film distributor.