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San Antonio house party / Le Ciego Melquíades (the blind fiddler).
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center
Mixed Availability
- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Melquíades, Ciego, instrumentalist.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mexican Americans--Texas--Music.
- Mexican Americans.
- Dance music.
- Popular music.
- Texas.
- Popular music--Rio Grande Valley (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.)--1931-1940.
- Popular music--Rio Grande Valley (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.)--1941-1950.
- Popular music--Texas--1931-1940.
- Popular music--Texas--1941-1950.
- Dance music--Texas.
- Genre:
- Music.
- Sound recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- El Cerrito, Calif. : Arhoolie Productions, [2002]
- System Details:
- digital
- optical
- 1.4 m/s
- digital recording
- Contents:
- El gato negro (Polka)
- Las tres Elviras (Mazurka)
- La gripa (Polka)
- Alma del Alma (Vals)
- Dias felices (Polka)
- Beatriz (Vals)
- Todos ellos (two step)
- Pancho Villa (Polka)
- Que Tomas (Two step)
- Felicitas (Polka)
- La Boradita (Polka)
- Tuyo O de nadie (Vals)
- Concha (Polka)
- Isabel (Vals)
- Mary (Polka)
- Para mi y para mi novia (Vals fox trot)
- Luz (Polka)
- Muchachas modernas (Vals fox trot)
- Virginia (Polka)
- Manuelita (Polka)
- Participant:
- El Ciego Melquíades, violin ; with unidentified guitar, violoncello, string bass, and (track 7) clarinet)
- Notes:
- Mexican-American popular music, from south Texas.
- Recorded between 1935 and 1949 in San Antonio, Texas.
- Compact disc.
- Biographical note by Chris Strachwitz ([2] p.) inserted in container.
- OCLC:
- 51972891
- Publisher Number:
- 096297704523
- CD 7045 Arhoolie
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