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Samedi, mai 29th, 2010
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It’s gargantuan that PBS is making this 2008 hour-long documentary available on home video because it probably didn’t net a lot of exposure on PBS TV stations outside of the Los Angeles place. Produced with a grant from the California Council on the Humanities, it wouldn’t have been a broad “pledge map” showing in other parts of the country.
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But this highly vivid and keen film covers an notable allotment of the history of rock and roll music and it’s timing couldn’t be better with the just-passed 50th anniversary of the plane shatter which killed pop idol and Mexican-American Richie Valens. His name is now in the news and this may scheme folks to this film.
As narrated by actor Edward James Olmos, the film covers a wider range of Chicano artists than I knew existed. Determined there was Valens and Los Lobos. But I didn’t know that Cannibal & The Headhunters - who ruled the airwaves in the 1960s with “Land of 1000 Dances” - or Tierra (with the 1970s crash hit “Together” which sounds a lot like Philly Soul) were from the East L.A. Mexican-American community. And there were even Chicano punk bands!
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Producer/Writer/Director/Editor Jon Wilkman found some vast archival footage and interviewed nearly every major Chicano artist - except for the unhurried Valens - going abet to the first ample Chicano superstar, Lalo Guerrero, who started in the 1930s!
If you want to know the Rotund history of Rock and Roll, this DVD will add tio your knowledge. Notice that there are no supplemental features.
Steve Ramm
“Anything Phonographic”
Actually when I bought this I had “The History of Latin Rock” in mind, I didn’t know it would only focus on East L.A., at first I was disappointed on what I purchased but after watching the documentary, I was pleasantly surprised. I recommend this for anyone enthusiastic in roots rock from the Hispanic thought.
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