Ruben Cobos, recorder, 1972
Item — Box: 2, CD: 164
Scope and Contents
Alberto Romero, b. 1922, Logan, NM. Bailes nuevomejicanos, New Mexico folk dances, comments and recordings. 1. La cuna (waltz, fair to poor recording, the cradle is a complicated folk dance, one of the most popular in Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado, dancers do a sudden swing before making a cradle with their arms); 2. Valse del pano (waltz, poor recording, valse danced with a handkerchief or pano cloth from New Mexico or Southern Colorado, folk dance, valses originated in Bavaria and Austria, Germany, in the 1700s, eightheenth century, in Spanish are vals, the pano and cuna are more complicated for dancers than most waltzes ); 3. La varsoviana (fair to poor recording, baile, or La Varseliana, may refer to dance or a girl from Varsovia, Warsaw, dance seems to have originated in Poland and probably brought into Mexico in nineteenth century with European soldiers, opular throughout the Spanish Southwest, folk dance); 4. El chote (fair to poor recording, dance, chotis, schottische, Scottish, not Scotland, but rather these dances originate in Bohemia, Germany, similar to polka but somewhat slower in movement, folk dance); 5. Las cuadrillas de Nuevo Mexico, (fair to poor recording, in Spanish means the troops, is a folk dance danced usually by four couples, this piece either in 6/8 or 2/4 time, folk dance); 6. El pasodoble (fair to poor recording, might be commecial, folk dance, from Spanish origin, two-step, rhythm almost like that of a march, not as popular as other dances like chotes, cunas or valses); 7. Polka (fair recording, might be commercial, may refer to a Polish woman or to the dance itself, polkas originated in Bohemia, Germany, may have been brought to Mexico by French soldiers in the middle 1800s, nineteenth century, usually danced in 2/4 time); 8. La Camila (fair to poor recording, baile, it is customary, in New Mexico and Southern Colorado, to use the article (el, la) with names of persons, dance seems to have originated in Austria, Germany, folk dance); 9. Versos del chiquiao, chiquiado (fair recording, maybe commercial, folk dance game involving the recitation of poetic strophes by the participants, coaxing a partner to leave their chair in middle of dance floor and go dancing); 10. Valse de cadena (fair recording, so called because the dancers formed a chain as they danced around the dance floor, folk dance, Cobos said this was most interesting to perform and to watch of all the valses).
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
cswrref@unm.edu
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
cswrref@unm.edu