Interviews

Lupe describes making tortillas

This video is an interview excerpt from the Virginia Humanities supported project Mexilachian Son: New Songs for an emerginag Virginia Culture. This clip, created in November 2018, features Zenen Zeferino interviewing Guadelupe Diaz Knott, about her first months living in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, grappling with how to cook for her Anglo-American husband and his family in an era before Mexican grocery staples were available.

Lupe’s funeral

This video is an interview excerpt from the Virginia Humanities supported project Mexilachian Son: New Songs for an emerging Virginia Culture. This clip, created in November 2018, features Zenen Zeferino interviewing Guadelupe Diaz Knott, about how she wants her funeral to be, and about songs that she has written.

Lupe’s interracial marriage

This video is an interview excerpt from the Virginia Humanities supported project Son Jarocho: New Sones From an Emerging Virginia Culture. In this clip, Lupe describes feeling discrimination in Luray when she moved there as part of an interracial couple, and after a while, moving back to El Paso, and suffering discrimination there as well.

Tom & Patti against the world

Tom & Patti: Growing Up in El Salvador

THE PERALTA FAMILY

This video is an interview excerpt from the Virginia Humanities supported project, Mexilachian Son: New Songs from an Emerging Virginia Culture.

These interviews are from October 2018, and feature discussion with the Peralta family about their memories of Mexico and their impressions of life in the Shenandoah Valley.

Los Peraltas/Las Nubes

Peralta kids talk about working hard in school

Chiles Enogadas

Mexican or American?

Brenci talks about Waynesboro, VA

This video is an interview excerpt from the Virginia Humanities supported project Mexilachian Son: New Songs from an Emerging Virginia Culture. This clip, created in November 2018, features Dr. Brenci Patiño, reflecting on what makes her feel at home, and how the Blue Ridge mountains remind her of the The Tuxtlas mountains of Veracruz.

Brenci’s first memories of music

This video is an interview excerpt from the Virginia Humanities supported project Mexilachian Son: New Songs from an Emerging Virginia Culture. This clip, created in September 2018, features Dr. Brenci Patiño, a Spanish professor at Mary Baldwin University, reflecting on the music of her childhood, and what it came to represent to her over time.

Sebastian

Sebastian dreams of being eaten while crossing the Rio Grande

This video is an interview excerpt from the Virginia Humanities supported project, Mexilachian Son: New Songs from an Emerging Virginia Culture. This clip, created in April 2019, features Sebastian Rivas recalling memories of crossing over the Rio Grande and the fear of animals in the river.

Hector

Hector’s first farm job

This video is an interview excerpt from the Virginia Humanities supported project Mexilachian Son: New Songs for an Emerging Virginia Culture. This clip, created in November 2018, features Hector Zamora, describing the trials of his first few agricultural jobs after coming to the United States, working in citrus orchards and tobacco fields.

ZENEN ZEFERINO

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The origins of the son jarocho & its poetic form

Excerpt of an interview with Zenen Zeferino Huervo, from the Virginia Humanities sponsored project Mexilachian Son: New Sones From an Emerging Virginia Culture. This interview is from October 2018, and features Zenen, discussing the history and origens of Son Jarocho music and culture in Veracruz, Mexico.

Alicia interviews Zenen about the origins of son jarocho

This video is an interview excerpt from the Virginia Humanities supported project Mexilachian Son: New Songs for an Emerging Virginia Culture. This clip, created in November 2018, features Alicia Lopez Opere, Spanish professor at the University of Virginia, interviewing Zenen Zeferino about the origins of the son jarocho poetic form.