A zoot suit (occasionally spelled zuit suit) is a men's suit with high-waisted, wide-legged, tight-cuffed, pegged trousers, and a long coat with wide lapels
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The June 1943 Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles, California were a series of attacks against Mexican American youth and other minorities by white American
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Zoot Suit is a play written by Luis Valdez, featuring incidental music by Daniel Valdez and Lalo Guerrero. Zoot Suit is based on the Sleepy Lagoon murder
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"Zoot Suit Riot" is a song by the American ska-swing band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, written by vocalist and frontman Steve Perry for the band's 1997
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Zoot Suit Riot: The Swingin' Hits of the Cherry Poppin' Daddies is a compilation album and fourth album overall by American ska-swing band the Cherry
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Zoot Suit is a 1981 film adaptation of the Broadway play Zoot Suit. Both the play and film were written and directed by Luis Valdez. The film stars Daniel
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The Zoot Suit Murders by Thomas Sanchez is a murder mystery set in Los Angeles of the 1940s and employing the true historical events of the Zoot suit riots
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A zoot suit is a style of clothing first popular in the 1930s and 1940s. Zoot suit may also refer to: Zoot Suit (play), a 1979 Broadway play by Luis Valdez
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active 1965–1971 Zoot!, a 1956 album by saxophonist Zoot Sims Zoot suit, a style of clothing first popular in the 1930s and 1940s Zoot, a game on the MSX
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"Zoot Suit" b/w "I'm the Face" was the first single of the British rock band The Who, who recorded it under the name The High Numbers in an attempt to
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the lyrics for both sides of their single "Zoot Suit"/"I'm the Face" to appeal to mods. The tune for "Zoot Suit" was "Misery" by the Dynamics, and "I'm the
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Chicano theater in the United States, Valdez is best known for his play Zoot Suit, his movie La Bamba, and his creation of El Teatro Campesino. A pioneer
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Mexican-Americans associated with zoot suits, street gangs, nightlife, and flamboyant public behavior. The idea of the pachuco – a zoot-suited, well-dressed, street-connected
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great deal of 1940s slang, a parody of the popular (but controversial) zoot suit, and some outdated features of 1930s popular culture. The cartoon opens
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for his bias and mishandling of the case. The 1979 play Zoot Suit and the 1981 movie Zoot Suit are loosely based on events surrounding the murder trial
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often have only one button). It is rare to find a suit with more than four buttons, although zoot suits can have as many as six or more due to their longer
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activist. He is best known for his work as musical director of the films Zoot Suit(1981) and La Bamba (1987). Valdez was born to Francisco and Armida
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20th century in the Southwestern United States. It is the product of zoot-suitpachuco culture that developed in the 1930s and '40s in cities along the
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Group production of Luis Valdez’s Zoot Suit. Her film debut was in Valdez's 1981 adaptation, the American classic Zoot Suit, launching a career that led to
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Records to release Zoot Suit Riot, a compilation of their swing material. Arriving at the onset of the late 1990s swing revival, Zoot Suit Riot became the
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