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• Text: ...get up in the morning, and I would smell the coffee grinds. I would smell the way made coffee in El Barrio. I would hear the music. We played trio music in those days. The Mexican trios were, and still are, considered sacred music to Puerto Ricans, Trio Los Panchos, Trio L...

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• Text: (laughter) Nah, just -- JJ: No way. GG: You know, and just getting into this strange, excellent music. Listening to this music, sitting, just kicking back and relaxing. Not losing the toughness, but not wanting to be there anymore. I didn’t want to fight people anymore.

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• Description: ...Hernández has been called the unofficial, “Poet Laureate of Chicago.” He blends folk, jazz, and Afro-Latin music that chronicles the pedestrian walking down Chicago’s streets. One of his famous poems is called “La Armitage” and features the neighborhood of Lincoln Park and severa...
• Text: ...His poem, “Immigrants/Liquid Thoughts” was included on the audio anthology, “A Snake in the Heart: Poems and Music by Chicago Spoken Word Performers” (1994). Today, David Hernández lives in Wicker Park, continues to be active in the community, and to collaborate with the Young...

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• Text: ...I don’t know if you remember them. It was a group that we hired to play at our dance. JJ: What kind of music did they play? DF Jr.: It was all soul music. And we were into soul a lot until salsa came out. We were into soul. But the Hypnotics -- I’ll never forget that group be...

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• Text: ... have, you’ll notice here I have, I don’t know if anyone wants to pan on it, but I have a lot of jazz and a lot of other music. But this was all in my office. I took him in the back and I showed him my jazz collection. There are records here from the 1950s on. (laughs) He said, “Would...

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• Text: We had music and bright colors and banners. People did art and sang. It was a time to use the arts to organize, to celebrate, to educate, to, you know, really bring people together and get them a sense of power and dignity.

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• Text: ...ing across the street from where the party was, and the party was for Puerto Rican and Latino. It was English-language 10 music. The cop didn’t like it. They came and knocked on the door and told them to put the music down because it was too loud. He went back across the stree...

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• Text: ...hat time, youth bands, orchestras, that were organized in Lincoln Park -- bilingual. Some were primarily in Spanish, Spanish music, and some were the Motown type of music at that time, but that originated, again, in Lincoln Park and spread later. So, you know, we see this community...

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• Description: ...His recent articles include “Out Loud and Into Print” in the May/June 2012 issue of City View (NC). He writes on music and his publications include features on “Hootie and the Blow Fish,” and singer and song writer “Rene Marie in Pluck!” He has written and broadcast twelv...
• Text: ...And so the title of a lot of jazz songs from the United States, of course, are in English, but the music, they listen to the music, and he talked about when they didn't speak English. So people have always spoke [00:28:00] their indigenous or their national languages without s...

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• Text: ...queño, the Puerto Rican Congress, and he was a big-time in terms of making sure that youth who wanted to be in the field of music, that he could set them up in the field of music, but the rule was, “You must do well in school.” And so, he began 12 something that many other ...

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• Text: ...was very surprised, and it was kind of a shock, but she just couldn’t be -- at that time, she went back to school, got her music degree, and went to Los Angeles, and we’d see each other periodically, and she died when she was 50 of uterus cancer 24 or one of those cancers. I sat with...

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• Text: We all went to the library together. [00:50:00] We were not troublemakers. There was music everywhere. See, I loved music. I always had a transistor radio, or I had -- my grandfather would buy me all types of things. My grandfather bought me the record player that you carried.

Oral history of Luis Acosta, interviewed by Jose “Cha-Cha” Jimenez on October 25, 2012 about the Young Lords in Lincoln Park. In the video, a Latino man in a dark sweater sits in front of a bookshelf facing the camera, while speaking to the interviewer who is off camera.

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• Text: ...He would give it to us every Sunday, and of course, I wouldn’t eat because I liked music. JJ: What kind of music? DJ: [00:48:00] Everything. Spanish, English, Motown, anything. I would dance to everything. And what I would do is I would take all my money, all my lunch money, ...

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• Text: He was a very [00:10:00] kind man. And when I came for -- I think I wanted to be in the music class, and they gave me a test on my ability to vocalize, I guess. And the teacher -- also very kind woman -I suppose she was very impressed because she got the principal to come to listen to me.

Oral history of Elaine Brown, interviewed by Jose 'Cha-Cha' Jimenez, on 5/10/2013 about the Young Lords in Lincoln Park.

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• Text: ...en we got into high school, we played things like football and all that. Football and basketball. And we liked a lot of 1 music concerts. In fact, Fred played saxophone. JJ: Oh, Fred played the saxophone? BH: And then I played trombone a little bit. And, you know, we kind of, like, my...