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Tex-Mex, music of the Texas Mexican borderlands, a Harcourt Films production ; produced and directed by Jeremy Marre

eng

videorecording

Tex-Mex

48271536

a Harcourt Films production ; produced and directed by Jeremy Marre

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Beats of the heart

music of the Texas Mexican borderlands

"Along the 1000 miles of the Rio Grande, Mexican and American cultures have mingled to produce Tex-Mex music, an exuberant style with a Mexican soul and a rock 'n' roll heart. Like most border regions, the Tex-Mex area is a cultural stewpot marked by violence, illegal immigrants, drug running and shady business dealings. Tex-Mex is a street - level tour of this border world, through cantinas, prisons, festivals even brothels where Tex-Mex music grows. Caught in performance and intimate conversation are Lydia Mendoza, one of the last great corrido singers whose career stretches back to the 1930's, Flaco Jimenez, the old style button accordion player who injected a Tex-Mex flavor into the music of Ry Cooder and Paul Simon, political firebrand Little Joe Hernandez and many other great performers of norteno, corrida and other Tex-Mex styles."--Back of container

Start program -- Poor lives -- rich songs -- Lydia Mendoza -- Beer and accordions -- Border radio -- Flaco Jimenez -- Serenade in a Mexican bar -- Border patrol in Brownsville -- Santiago Jimenez, Jr. -- Little Joe Hernandez

live action

Music of the Texas-Mexican borderlands