Percussions, impressions and reality

Duration: 30

Year Published: 1978

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: This film introduces the origins and growth of traditional Puerto Rican music. Interviews with musicians living in New York City reveal how this music is used as a source of resistance against cultural domination and as a means by which Puerto Rican culture is maintained and transformed. The film focuses on the music performed by the Lexington Avenue Express, a group that evolved from a workshop sponsored by the Center for Puerto Rican Studies. Over the years, the group has taken their music to community centers, political gatherings, prisons, and festivals. They are seen in action at a street fair in New York.

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