Word: mariachi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Luis B. Castro '92, a member of RAZA's steering committee, said the celebrations and festivals differ between communities. The events usually include dancing, mariachi bands, pinatas and traditional Mexican music, said Castro...
Today's festivities include a reception, a speaker from the Spanish Literature Department, the dance troupe Ballete Folklorico Atzlan, a traditional Mexican dinner, a Mariachi band, the keynote speaker on the future of Mexican-Americans in the U.S, and a dance. All activities are open to the public except for the dinner, Alexander said...
Gonzalez found the perfect canvas: a gray concrete-block wall just off Cheesbrough's Lane in the parking lot of El Mercado, a Hispanic gathering place for shopping, food stalls and mariachi bands. Olmos grew up in a house just down the street. Gonzalez and fellow Muralists Tony Ramirez and Xavier Quijas got to work with their acrylic paints. Then Photographer Harry Benson captured the image that appears on the cover...
...Dallas messages stuffed in packages of tortillas urge Hispanics to "Act Now." In Houston, fiestas feature mariachi bands and free refreshments as a blimp hovers overhead with a sign proclaiming LEGALIZE TODAY. With means of persuasion ranging from radio ads to subway placards, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service is pushing hard to convince illegal aliens that they should take advantage of a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity." Under a program mandated by Congress in 1986, they must move soon to apply for amnesty and obtain permanent-residence status. The deadline: May 4, though the Reagan Administration has extended...
First of all, the marimba is not a dance, like the mambo. Nor is it a folk band, like a mariachi. Nor should it be confused with maracas, those hollow gourds filled with dry seeds that shake, rattle and roll south of the border. Most audiences could not pick it out of a percussion lineup, and concert managers flee at the very mention of its name. For Leigh Howard Stevens, to be the world's greatest classical marimbist must sometimes seem a dubious achievement...