Los Treinta: 30 Years of Salvadorans in D.C. through Music and Poetry
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content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2017 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2017 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Series 4: On The Move / 4.3: Audio
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content: 1 Sound recording (digital audio file)
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content: 2017 July 01
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content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.2017, Item SFF2017_0701_OTM_Story_Circle_0004
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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: Michelle Banks (presenter); Quinque Aviles; DJ Mexa (Hugo Najera) ;Writer/poet Quique Avilés and DJ Mezkla reflect on the thirty-year history of Salvadorans in the Washington, D.C., area. The largest migrations of Salvadorans to the D.C. area started in the 1980s. Today many are second generation. Their performance presents the stories of Salvadorans across this period through verbal arts and music. As Salvadoran artists and educators, Avilés and DJ Mezkla have been engaged in social justice and community-building art and music events in the D.C. area for many years. Avilés has been writing, performing, and leading community arts projects for over three decades. DJ Mezkla uses music from cutting-edge non-Western voices as an expression of his transcultural backgrounds.