Mixteco Fiesta Traditions [Unrecorded]
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Series 5: Special Events / 5.3: Audio
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content: 1 Sound recording (digital audio file)
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content: 2016 June 29
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.2016, Item SFF2016_0629_Arts_And_Industries_0002
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content: Archival materials
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Listening copies available
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content: Amy Vivian Kitchner (presenter); Emilano Flores; Eric Flores; Pedro Flores; Felix Morales; Juan Carlos Morales; Jose Luis Ramos; Raul Lopez; Diego Solano [Performers] This intergenerational group of masked dancers and musicians from the Sounds of California program will demonstrate a Mixteco (Indigenous Oaxacan) festival tradition, danza de los diablos (dance of the devils), specific to their hometown of San Miguel Cuevas in the Juxtlahuaca district of the Mixteca Baja in northern Oaxaca, Mexico. They have brought this tradition to their new home in the San Joaquin Valley, where they perform for local community events.