Polka / directed by Robert Boonzajer-Flaes ; interview by Maarten Rens.

Variant title Polka : roots of Mexican accordion playing in South Texas and North Mexico
SeriesEthnographic video online, volume 2
Abstract The film confronts the accordion music of Chicano immigrants in southern Texas with the traditional music of accordion players in Austria. Without making any final judgments on the ‘roots’ of ‘conjunto’ music of the Chicanos, the film is able to reveal the different claims to ethnic identity. Most interestingly, Chicanos in Mexico and Texas and Austrians comment upon each others’ way of playing Polka.
General noteTitle from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014).
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded in January 1986 in Monterrey, Mexico, San Antonio, Texas and Salzburgerland, Austria.
Other formsPreviously released as DVD.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Ethnographic video online, volume 2). Available via World Wide Web.
LanguageThis edition in English.
Genre/formDocumentary films.

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