Jeanette Martinez, Ricardo Maestas with Alex Trujillo, recorders, 1972
Item — Box: 1, CD: 28
Scope and Contents
Martinez, 1972: Adelaido Martinez, b. 1895, Medanales, NM. 1. Part II, Los tres consejos (folk tale); 2. Los tres hermanos (folk tale, three brother fighting over a hat, boots and a club left by their parents, a rogue suggests they have a race to see who would win it all, when they run off, he steals the objects and disappears).
Maestas and Trujillo, 1973: Amadeo Lopez, b. 1898, Chamizal, NM, Taos County. 1. El compadre astronomo (anecdote, two men are out looking for their horses, the man with rheumatic leg predicts it will snow, thye stay in shed overnight, but next morning no snow, forecasting weather); 2. En la politica del Senor Lavadi (anecdote, politics, rally in sala, hall of Benito Vigil, Labadie running for judge, Democrat, Ranchos de Taos, girl tells him he is too old to run, humor, children); 3. Discurso de Francisco Madero (discourse of President of Mexico, informant repeated it from memory, declamation, had heard it on a phonograph record, Madero speech commemorating Benito Juarez victory over Maximilian, French intervention, September 16, his call for unity among Catholics and Protestants, Mexican Revolution); 4. El borrachito Manzanares (comical scene, humor was popular in the 1920s, those recorded by Julio Ayala especially, here a drunk gives the judge a hard time, puns and cultural differences between world of the judge and that of the drunkard, drinking); 5. El piojo y la pulga (animal fable, instead of the ballad, corrido for children, this is a spoken folk tale of the same, marriage between the louse and the flea and their friends the weevil and mice, and the bad cat, more incidents than in the ballad); 6. Triangulo de amor, dos comadres (comical scene, humor, informant recites from memory the dialog between the men, one had affair with the wife of the other, he heard it from a 78 rpm Columbia record, platter); 7. Confesion de un indio y de una india (comical scene, humor, confession of a Native American Indian man and a woman before a priest, exchange of puns, play on words, language, church, religion, women); 8. El bolillito, name for el gringo, the little white bread roll, bolillo (anecdote, two men discussing men they had met in bars and on the street, one tells of the American he scared so bad the man always avoids him when he see him on the street); 9. Don Cacahuate (anecdote, man chasing Cacahuate wanting to kill him, when he hears Cacahuate say he has killed 99 men, the killer flees); 10. Dos hombres llamados Miguel (anecdote, two men named Miguel fighting on the job, work, employment); 11.El oso (anecdote, while going through the woods a couple approached by a bear, man drops rifle and climbs tree, wife get gun and shoots bear, man comes down saying - aren't we glad we killed him, women); 12; El hombre, su hijo y el oso (anecdote, in woods man and son encounter a bear and run away, which one is a coward); 13. Las tres preguntas (folk tale, a king asks his friend the priest three questions, priest can't answer them but his shepherd friend, disguised like the priest can and saves his head, church, religion, poor people more intelligent than higher richer ones).
Maestas and Trujillo, 1973: Amadeo Lopez, b. 1898, Chamizal, NM, Taos County. 1. El compadre astronomo (anecdote, two men are out looking for their horses, the man with rheumatic leg predicts it will snow, thye stay in shed overnight, but next morning no snow, forecasting weather); 2. En la politica del Senor Lavadi (anecdote, politics, rally in sala, hall of Benito Vigil, Labadie running for judge, Democrat, Ranchos de Taos, girl tells him he is too old to run, humor, children); 3. Discurso de Francisco Madero (discourse of President of Mexico, informant repeated it from memory, declamation, had heard it on a phonograph record, Madero speech commemorating Benito Juarez victory over Maximilian, French intervention, September 16, his call for unity among Catholics and Protestants, Mexican Revolution); 4. El borrachito Manzanares (comical scene, humor was popular in the 1920s, those recorded by Julio Ayala especially, here a drunk gives the judge a hard time, puns and cultural differences between world of the judge and that of the drunkard, drinking); 5. El piojo y la pulga (animal fable, instead of the ballad, corrido for children, this is a spoken folk tale of the same, marriage between the louse and the flea and their friends the weevil and mice, and the bad cat, more incidents than in the ballad); 6. Triangulo de amor, dos comadres (comical scene, humor, informant recites from memory the dialog between the men, one had affair with the wife of the other, he heard it from a 78 rpm Columbia record, platter); 7. Confesion de un indio y de una india (comical scene, humor, confession of a Native American Indian man and a woman before a priest, exchange of puns, play on words, language, church, religion, women); 8. El bolillito, name for el gringo, the little white bread roll, bolillo (anecdote, two men discussing men they had met in bars and on the street, one tells of the American he scared so bad the man always avoids him when he see him on the street); 9. Don Cacahuate (anecdote, man chasing Cacahuate wanting to kill him, when he hears Cacahuate say he has killed 99 men, the killer flees); 10. Dos hombres llamados Miguel (anecdote, two men named Miguel fighting on the job, work, employment); 11.El oso (anecdote, while going through the woods a couple approached by a bear, man drops rifle and climbs tree, wife get gun and shoots bear, man comes down saying - aren't we glad we killed him, women); 12; El hombre, su hijo y el oso (anecdote, in woods man and son encounter a bear and run away, which one is a coward); 13. Las tres preguntas (folk tale, a king asks his friend the priest three questions, priest can't answer them but his shepherd friend, disguised like the priest can and saves his head, church, religion, poor people more intelligent than higher richer ones).
Dates
- 1972
Language of Materials
From the Collection:
English, Spanish
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Collection: 13 boxes (12.25 cu. ft.)
Creator
- From the Collection: Cobos, Rubén (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository
Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451