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Harold B. Tafoya, Jesus Castro, recorders, 1970

 Item — Box: 1, CD: 67

Scope and Contents

Tafoya: Pablo A. Gonzalez, b. 1898, San Isidro, NM. Adivinanzas (good recording, two riddles, one about a rat).

Tafoya: Lazaro Sandoval, b. 1909, San Isidro, NM. Adivinanzas (five riddles, one about the ant).

Tafoya: Magdalena Sandoval, b. 1900, San Isidro, NM. Verso (folk poetry, one quatrain about love for Geraldo).

Tafoya: Mercedes Delgado, b. 1926, San Isidro, NM. Verso (good recording, folk poetry, one quatrain about chiqueque and tu abuela, grandmother, women).

Tafoya: Pablo A. Gonzalez, b. 1898, San Isidro, NM. Verso (folk poetry, one quatrain about local devotion to San Isidro).

Tafoya: Mercedes Delgado, b. 1926, San Isidro, NM. Versos (good recording, folk poetry, two verses from the valse chiquiado, chiquiao, including one about rejecting a suitor or boy friend, darele calabazas, pumpkins, women).

Tafoya: Magdalena Sandoval, b. 1900, San Isidro, NM. Versos (good recording, folk poetry, one verse, valse chiquiado, chiquiao).

Tafoya: Jose Pilar Tafoya, b. 1900, San Isidro, NM. 1. Folk poetry, versos, adivinanzas, refranes, versos de bautismo, riddle about un lobo and another about un carro, cart). 2. Al suelo (anecdote, man goes hunting and shoots at the deer, but kills none, bullets hit the ground).

Tafoya: Magdalena Sandoval, b. 1900, San Isidro, NM. Verso (folk poetry, one quatrain about La Encarnacion, banda en el rio, decision o Lizardo).

Tafoya: Jose Pilar Tafoya, b. 1900, San Isidro, NM. 1. Maxima ( folk poetry, a moral, hacer bien a todos, verse about doing good toward all); 2. Verso, (folk poetry, verse about honor, country and God, and defending them, patriotism).

Tafoya: Delfinia Aragon, b. 1914, San Isidro, NM. 1. Good recording. Entriega de novios (folk poetry, seventeen versos, boda, wedding, marriage); 2. Entriega de bautismo (folk poetry, six versos song for baptism, children); 3. Prenda para novios (folk poetry, five versos from marriage song for the couple, engagement, weeding, very rare piece said Cobos); 4. Entriega de novios (thirty three more versos); 5. Verso de chiquiado, chiquiao, one verse.

Castro: Moises Beserra, b. 1904, Mexico, Mexican American - Albuquerque, NM). 1. Pancho Villa en Guanajuato Mexico, (good recording, relato, story of entrance of Pancho Villa into the state); 2. Local history, good recording, Cerrillos, Madrid, Christmas decorations, activities, etc.; 3. Lamy, New Mexico (good recording, local history, how Lamy got its name); 4. Besserra, (fair recording, informes personales, local history, birth place, personal history, etc., refers to Pancho Villa raid on Columbus, New Mexico, Prohibition, the Great Depression, local conditions in New Mexico).

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