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Polka / directed by Robert Boonzajer-Flaes ; interview by Maarten Rens.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mexican Americans--Texas--Music--History and criticism.
- Mexican Americans.
- Mexican Americans--Mexico--Music--Ethnic identity.
- Polkas--Texas--History and criticism.
- Polkas.
- Polkas--Austria--History and criticism.
- Conjunto music--History and criticism.
- Conjunto music.
- Popular music--Texas--History and criticism.
- Popular music.
- Popular music--Austria--History and criticism.
- Accordion music--Texas--History and criticism.
- Accordion music.
- Accordion music--Austria--History and criticism.
- Austrians--Ethnic identity.
- Austrians.
- Austrians--Music--History and criticism.
- Ethnicity.
- Ethnomusicology.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (53 min.).
- Other Title:
- Polka : roots of Mexican accordion playing in South Texas and North Mexico
- Place of Publication:
- London : Royal Anthropological Institute, 1986.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014).
- Recorded Monterrey, Mexico Recorded San Antonio, Texas Recorded Salzburgerland 1986.
- OCLC:
- 877879972
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