Los Matachines de la Santa Cruz de la Ladrillera.

Los Matachines de la Santa Cruz de la Ladrillera.

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	San Antonio, Tex. : KLRN : Alamo Public Telecommunications Council, c1996.
Description:	1 DVD (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language:	English
Subject:	Matachines (Dance) -- Texas -- Laredo. Dance festivals -- Texas -- Laredo. Mexican Americans -- Texas -- Laredo -- Religion. Dance festivals. Matachines (Dance) Mexican Americans -- Religion. Texas -- Laredo. Documentary films.
Format:	DVD Video
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6165673

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Other authors / contributors:	Guerra, Henry. Leindo, Claudina. Castillo, Javier. Cantú, Norma E, 1947- Richardson, Marlene. Hanks, Mike. Vaughn, Charles. Reding, Kathy. KLRN (Television station : San Antonio, Tex.) Alamo Public Telecommunications Council.
Notes:	Produced with the assistance of Texas Folklife Resources, Pat Jasper, director. 1989 video by Martha Hartzog, Paul Congo, Dan Hildebrand. 1987 Smithsonian video from the Archive of the Center for Folklife Programs & Cultural Studies. Producer, writer, director, Marlene Richardson; director of production, Mike Hanks; executive producer, Charles Vaughn; online editor, artistic director, Kathy Reding; camera, Carlos R. Sanchez. Narrator, Henry Guerra ; Claudina Leindo, Javier Castillo, Norma Cantu, Javier Ortiz, Carolina Leindo, Alicia Martinez, Jose Romero, Roberto Ortiz, Reynaldo Ortiz, Maria Luisa Garibay.
Summary:	Documents the tradition of dance and prayer, conducted on each December 12 Festival of Our Lady of Guadalupe and May 3 Feast of Santa Cruz, as it has been kept alive for over 100 years by various generations of a community that left Mexico in the late 1800s to work in Texan mines, and then moved on to work in Laredo's brick factoris. These dancers, or Los Matachines, are interviewed as they prepare their costumes and dance props and explain the deep personal spiritual meaning of this sacred dance for the Saints and Holy Mother and Father.

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Call Number:	DVD GV1796.M35M38 1996
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