Anonymous, recorder, Undated
Item — Box: 3, CD: 267
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Tino Chavez? Part II cont. Hombre con caballos moros.
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Tino? Chavez, b. San Rafael, NM, Tino Chavez, raised in Albuquerque. Begins at 00:01 and ends at 16:44. 1. anecdote (woman and her child go by a monastery, she says good morning to all the priests coming out of the place, child asks her just how many grandpas he has, good recording, children, women, speaking Spanglish, code switching, bilingual); 2. anecdote (husband and wife wear false teeth, he in a hurry to go to work, puts on his wife's set! good recording, marriage); 3. anecdote (two men stuttering, in two caravans, with horse drawn wagons, carros, one going to El Paso, one to Socorro, camp near each other, Albuquerque, get up in the morning, meet, stammering, think the other is mimicking him, get into a fight, friends separate them, explain situation, good recording, speaking Spanglish, code switching, bilingual, tartamudo, speech impediment, language); 4. Deaf man (misinterprets what he hears, comic results, good recording, joke, sordo, poet, humor, gallina, harina); 5. Man goes to a bar (good recording, story, friends invite him to have a drink, asks for white port, later red port, lastly bartender asks what he wants next, answer - no import, speaking Spanglish, code switching, bilingual, language); 6. Americanos in Juarez, Mexico (Americans in Mexico, good recording, story, they get stuck with a large order of tamales de masa adentro, misunderstood them to be de mas adentro, Mexico from the interior of the country, restaurant, play on words, language); 7. anecdote (two men discuss education, a fine thing to be educated, one went to school so long that finally he couldn't fit in the child's seat, humor);
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Anonymous people adding material during this session (Anonymous, woman, recites a rhyme, for children, pin, pin, la meca culeca).
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Anonymous man (Corrido de Reyes Ruiz, good recording, song about Reyes, leaves work, heads to a September 16 celebration in Guajoquia del Alto, Mexico, his mother begged him not to go, gets drunk on wine and starts a fight with Luis Plutarco, died of knife wound, bleading in a dump, death, muerte, bilingual, code switching).
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Meliton Trujillo, Taos, NM. Begins at 16:49 and ends at 29:15. 1. Versos de valse chiquiado, chiquiao (good recording, song, casar, calabaza, marriage, wedding); 2. Versos al Dennis Chavez (composed by Meliton Trujillo, song for El Senador, US senator from New Mexico, igualdad, equality, justice, New Mexico politics, 1930s); 3. More versos, bonito valle de Taos (good recording, song, Taos, New Mexico, chasco); 4. Versos recited for Ruben Cobos; 5. Adivinanzas; 6. Para el pelo (ranita, ranito, hazme la parte); 7. Verso, adivinanza (Arca monarca, no carpenter, about only Dios, only God, could construct the human body); 8. Boy meets giant (they test their strength, boy takes a bird and casts it as a stone, uses his honda, slingshot, children, etc.); 9. Alabado (song, Venid pecadores, Por el rastro de la sangre, good recording, cruz, cross, sung for Holy Week, Semana Santa, Penitentes); 10. anecdote (good recording, song, Indian tricks a poor man man with story of a gold nugget to get a meal off him, Native American).
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Anonymous girl. Begins at 29:20 and ends at 30:22. 1. Indita del indito, Las Inditas de San Juan (good recording, song, corral, llorar); 2 Song (fair recording, reganar, scold, casar, women, marriage).
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Anonymous woman. Begins at 31:55 and ends at 33:41. 1. Song, Yo no quiero ser casado, women (good recording, song, enamorado, madre, hijo, consejos, casar, marriage); 2. Dos hombres (se muere uno antes del otro, etc.", rico, pobre, rich same as poor man in muerte, death, burial, bronze casket, equality in muerte); 3. Semana Santa (fair recording, Holy Week, on Viernes Santo, Holy Friday, if las muchachas querian bailar con un joven, el diablo comes to dance with them, women, the handsome man with tail is the devil, earthquake).
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Anonymous, man. Begins at 33:47 and ends at 35:29. Corrido de Rosita Alvirez (good recording, 1900, women, en un barrio Rosita Alvirez murio, baile, la mas bonita, pistola, gun, three bullets, jail, heaven, jealousy of boy friend, muerte, death, Mexico).
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Anonymous woman. Begins at 35:32 and ends at 38:47. Story, La paloma y el coyote (good recording, incomplete, monte, calvo, llorar, coyote takes one of the dove's chicks, rey de todas las aves).
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Anonymous woman, Begins at 39:09 and ends at 44:43. Song, Entriega de novios (harmonica accompaniment, fair recording, New Mexico tradition, iglesia, church, marriage, wedding,esposa, padrinos).
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Anonymous man, Begins at 44:52 and ends at 47:50. Story (good recording, cuento, of three sons, father asks each one of them what they would like to be, thief, businessman, and rancher, along came a man on a burro, looking for his lost shoe, ladron robbed him, borrego, zapato, bosque, viejito, monte, sheep sounds, burro, this man speaks rapidly).
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Tranquilino Lopez, age 74, Las Trampas, NM. Begins at 47:54. 1. Story (a man has some experiences which he later used in a contest and married a princess, good recording, man climbs a pine tree to heaven, San Pedro, etc., lies to the princess, marries the queen, leche pronounced as lechi, hacer queso, makes cheese, cuchillo, se corto la cabeza, cabresto); 2. Folk tale (the man and the serpent, good recording, story, snake, tres testigos, three witnesses, dinero, coyote, vibora, half a dozen chickens, gallinas, recompensa, perros, dogs); 3. Adivinanza (good recording, riddle, feos, Los zarcillos, etc., women); 4. Experiences in Ignacio, Colorado (good recording, story, joven, as a young man, ranching, 1918, spoke Spanish there, did not speak English, shepherd, sheep, he went out of state, employment, working for the railroad, missing the train, borrega, lana, wool, 1922, Utah, Rio Grande, Valle de San Miguel); 4. Song, Part I. Una americanita y una mexicanita (women, good recording, story, American girl, Mexican girl, Part II cont. on CD 268).
Dates
- Undated
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