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Alerta Sings and Songs for the Playground/ Canciones Para el Recreo
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produced by Suni Paz, fl. 1977 (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 2000), 1 hour 5 mins
Suni Paz has devoted her career to opening children’s minds to new languages and new sounds through music. This release includes two of her acclaimed Folkways children’s recordings. ALERTA Sings presents easy-to-learn songs from Latin America and the Caribbean. Canciones para el recreo presents fun songs fro...
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produced by Suni Paz, fl. 1977 (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 2000), 1 hour 5 mins
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El Alma de Puerto Rico: Jíbaro Tradition by Ecos de Borinquen
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produced by Daniel E. Sheehy; performed by Ecos de Borinquen (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 2016), 59 mins
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produced by Daniel E. Sheehy; performed by Ecos de Borinquen (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 2016), 59 mins
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Amor, Dolor y Lagrimas: Música Ranchera
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(Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 2008), 48 mins
Amor, Dolor y Lágrimas (Love, Pain, and Tears) flow from the heart of the Mexican mariachi when it plays música ranchera, Mexico’s soulful "country music." Riding the wave of mass media beginning in the 1930s, música ranchera became the single most popular vein of Mexican music by the 1950s. GRAMMY-winning M...
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(Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 2008), 48 mins
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Amor, Dolor y Lagrimas: Música Ranchera
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Amor, Dolor y Lagrimas: Música Ranchera (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 2008)
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¡Así Kotama! The Flutes of Otavalo, Ecuador
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produced by Daniel E. Sheehy; performed by Hatun Kotama (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 2013), 1 hour 3 mins, 36 page(s)
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produced by Daniel E. Sheehy; performed by Hatun Kotama (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 2013), 1 hour 3 mins, 36 page(s)
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El ave de mi soñar: Mexican Sones Huastecos
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(Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 2005), 45 mins

Hard-edged violin improvisations, driving guitar rhythms, and soaring falsetto vocal excursions mark the son huasteco, one of Mexico’s most distinctive and celebrated regional styles of music. Raised on the cattle and sugar cane ranches of the Huastecan region of northeastern Mexico, the three men of Los Camper...

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(Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 2005), 45 mins
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El ave de mi soñar: Mexican Sones Huastecos (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 2005)
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¡Ayombe! The Heart of Colombia's Música Vallenata
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(Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 2008), 1 hour 13 mins
In the words of Grammy®-winning popular singer/actor Carlos Vives, "Colombia is one of those great musical quarries of the Americas, as have been the American South, the Antilles, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina." Since the late 20th century, the music of the vallenatos- people of a small valley region of the...
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(Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 2008), 1 hour 13 mins
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¡Ayombe! The Heart of Colombia's Música Vallenata (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 2008)
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