Skip to main content

Vi Gomez, Gail Ogawa, recorders, 1970

 Item — Box: 1, CD: 37

Scope and Contents

Gomez: Juan Marquez, b. 1891, Las Vegas, NM. La Cenicientilla, Cinderella (Part II, folk tale).

Gomez: Alfredo Benavidez, b. 1893, Socorro, NM. 1. Good recording, Domingo siete (folk tale, song in story, an old hunchback, his friend and the brujas in the woods, hunchback gets cured and rich, friend get the hump witch took from the other man, witch tale); 2. El hombre y la Muerte, (folk tale, while a man is eating his lunch, the Lord, the Devil and Death come asking for part of his meal, he gives some food to Death, because it does not discriminate, all equalized, rich, poor); 3. El hombre y su compadre envidioso (folk tale, overhearing the plans of the demons, a man heroically saves the people from their evils, his envious friends goes to the demons to do the sam but is beaten up); 4. Mi burrito pardo (folk song, canción, lyrics, man brays like a donkey and sings a song about a woman taking advantage of her men, other problems in life, etc., women); 5. Soy Labrador (folk song, lyrics only, man not a farner but really a Jack of all trades, work, job, employment); 6. Mama, Mama (folk song, recited, lyrics, men are like Lucifer, devil, girls not trust them, women); 7. El conquian (a nursery rhyme, it is not about the New mexico card game); 8. Alla en la llanura (Christmas, Los pastores, sung, song fragment); 9. Este mundo no tiene fin (dicho, some people don't have money for flour but want to buy an automobile, car); 10. Eres, eras y seras (folk poetry, lines of an old folk song here recited in verse, love song, winning the girl, language); 11. La marcha de Santa Ana (nursery rhyme, harmonica accompaniment, children, marching song, fragment, song composed in honor of General President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Mexico); 12. Mi burrito pardo (with braying of donkey, fragment, continued from # 4 above); 13. Tonadita (good to fair recording, folk tune, sung, with harmonica accompaniment, baile, dance); 14. El viudo (good to fair recording, folk song, humor song about a widower man, end of nineteenth century, women); 15. Corazon solido (good to fair recording, folk song, the name is more popular and recent, but the tune is that of an older song); 16. De que vienen de la plaza las mujeres (good to fair recording, folk song, the hubbub of the women coming back from town, song with harmonica accompaniment); 17. Canto de Los Pastores (Christmas, shepherds song); 18. Four versos, folk poetry, sung and improvised, addressed to the student recording this, like a serenade); 19. Song from the introduction to Las Posadas (Christmas carol, pageant); 20. Two charming songs and one speech from Los Pastores (Christmas play, St. Michael and the devil, San Miguel, good to fair recording).

Ogawa: Lala Gutierrez, b. 1925, Chihuahua, Mexico, a Mexican woman's stories. 1. Los viejos bravos, (Mexican folk tale, story of a king, his rebellious subjects - a man and wife, and their magic bird and horse, and a child hero Chilindrino who solves the problems, children, women); 2. Los tres osos (folk tale, Spanish version of Goldilocks and the three bears).

Ogawa: Presvitor Garcia, b. 1888, Los Duranes, NM, Albuquerque. El triste leon (good recording, folk song, he recites some lines from a song called El Venadito, lyrics only, fair recording).

Ogawa: Flora Garcia, b. 1913, Los Duranes, NM. Fair recording. El borreguero y el avaro (folk tale, the shepherd tells a miser that the world is about to end, commotion that results).

Ogawa: Presvitor Garcia, b. 1888, Los Duranes, NM. Versos (fair recording, folk poetry, lines from a Mexican song, from the nineteenth century, conditions, poverty, railroad, newcomers, brought on losses in Mexico).

Ogawa: Flora Garcia, b. 1913, Los Duranes, NM. Fair recording. La Doce Verdades del Mundo (folk tale, devil will take a farmer's only child unless he can recite the twelve truths, man can't find anyone who knows this prayer, but his guardian angel does, angel says the prayer and stops the devil).

Ogawa: Presvitor Garcia, b. 1888, Los Duranes, NM, Albuquerque. 1. La zagala y el pastor (good to fair recording, ballad, corrido, lyrics, a flirtatious blond girl and the consciencious shepherd boy, romance between the two, women, love); 2. Dos versos (good recording, folk poetry, lines about love, romance).

Ogawa: Flora Garcia, b. 1913, Los Duranes, NM. Versos (good recording. folk poetry, five verses from valse chiquiado, chiquiao).

Ogawa: Presvitor Garcia, b. 1888, Los Duranes, NM. Dos versos (good recording, folk poetry, two verses).

Ogawa: Lito Emilio Baros, b. 1903, Bernalillo, NM. Poor recording. Fair to good recording. El valse chiquiado, chiquiao y la historia de Cruz Hurtado (Part I, cazador, hunter, mentira, the tall tale, explanation of the dance game valse chiquiado and story of the hunter Cruz who hiding in the woods sees a colony of bears dancing the chiquiado, chiquiao).

Dates

  • 1970

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

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