MEDIA: “How Mexico Learned to Polka”
In celebration of Flaco Jimenez’s 76th birthday, National Public Radio journalist Felix Contreras interviewed Chris Strachwitz, founder of Arhoolie Records and the Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings (online at UCLA), on the German influence on Mexican and Mexican American music. The story can be heard here.
The award-winning research guide The Arhoolie Foundation’s Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings is published by CSRC Press.
https://www.npr.org/2015/03/11/392141073/how-mexico-learned-to-polka
