Mixteco Fiesta Traditions
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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 4: Sounds of California / Audio
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content: 1 Sound recording (digital audio file)
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content: 2016 July 01
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content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.2016, Item SFF2016_0701_SOCA_Stage_and_Plaza_0007
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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 Kitchener (presenter); Raul Lopez; Pedro Flores; Felix Morales; Emiliano Flores; Eric Flores (participants) This intergenerational group of musicians and dancers represent the Mixteco (indigenous Oaxacan) farmworker communities of the San Joaquin Valley Banda Brillo de San Miguel Cuevas is a wind band formed in Fresno. The group's repertoire includes the most popular Mixtec dance rhythm, the chilena, plus a wide range of traditional regional Mexican and Oaxacan music, including rancheras, boleros, marches, and polkas. Nuu Yuku/Danza de los Diablos de San Miguel Cuevas .is a dance group who performs danza de los diablos, or dance of the devils, which represents a ized local tradition unique to San Miguel Cuevas in the Juxtlahuaca district of the Mixteca Baja in northern Oaxaca, Mexico.