[upbeat accordion music]
- Cris Plata: Music is a big part of Mexican culture.
Basically, I was just a small kid,
and my father decided that there was money to be made
in West Texas picking cotton,
so that's where we started first doing our migrant work.
We came to Wisconsin in 1966.
A lot of the families, anytime anybody got together,
guitars were, y'know, pulled out.
If anything happened that was of any newsworthy event,
there was somebody that actually sat down
and wrote a song about it.
The thing that they always talk about is "el norte," the north.
[singing in Spanish]
By the time we got up to Wisconsin,
we always knew what was going down in Texas
by people who were coming up later, singing songs.
[singing in Spanish]