Rose Griego, James Martinez, Gayette Burkhead, Sheila Monahan, Flory White, recorders, 1975
File — Box: 4, CD: 378
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
The collection consists of 591 recordings of folk songs, folklore and local histories collected by Ruben Cobos from 1944-1974 in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado. Also included in the collection are about 270 additional recordings of selected music - a few from New Mexico, many from Mexico and Latin America, and others from Spain, Europe and the U.S. The recordings vary in quality between good, fair, and poor. They contain both musical and spoken content. Most recordings are in Spanish, however, a few are in English. Others are Bilingual or represent the use of Spanglish.
The informants are mainly from New Mexico and Colorado, with a few from California, Texas and Mexico. The collections focuses heavily on spoken Spanish, with examples of poetry, riddles, proverbs, legends, anecdotes, folk tales, mysteries, prayers, nursery rhymes, games, jokes, language use, tricky words, tongue twisters, memories, local history and family history. The Spanish songs include alabados, entriegas for weddings and baptisms, inditas, corridos and ballads, pastores, posadas, love songs, folk dance music, etc. Traditions of Los Juanes and Los Manueles, Penitente morada practices, including women Penitentes, Holy Week songs and activities and the role of the church, santos and fiestas in the lives of the people are also included. There are also several lectures on folklore, music and culture by Cobos and other scholars, including Fray Angelico Chavez, Charles Briggs, Alfonso Ortiz, Arthur Leon Campa, Marta Weigle, Guadalupe Baca Vaughn, Anita Thomas and others. Included also are autobiographical accounts by Ruben Cobos and his wife Elvira.
Songs and stories about and for children, their health and education are included. Although the majority of the information is about Spanish and Hispanic traditions, the collection also provides some materials by and about non-Hispanics and the relationship between the races. A small amount of stories and songs relate to Apaches, Navajos, Pueblos, Mexicanos, African Americans, and Anglos (gringos).
Songs and stories by or about males show them in every walk of life, as rich and poor, old and young, as husbands, widowers, fathers, sons, relatives, compadres, friends, orphans, opponents, collaborators, kings, princes, commoners, giants, ranchers, cowboys, shepherds, farmers, woodcutters, shoemakers, vendors, railroaders, hunters, priests, doctors, teachers, politicians, attorneys, meteorologists, soldiers, witches, simpletons, gamblers, murderers, drunks, adulturers and thieves.
Recordings by and about women add value and perspective to the collection. Females are rich and poor, old and young, girl friends, lovers, adulteresses, wives, widows, mothers, comadres, church attendees, housekeepers for priests, nuns, princesses, queens, teachers, curanderas, cooks and witches. Some of the characters found in the collection are Cinderella, Genoveva de Brabanate, Goldilocks, Delgadina, La Llorona, Doña Cebolla, Dona Fortuna and the Virgin Mary, as well as San Antonio, San Pedro, Bartoldo, Don Cacahuate, Juan Charrasqueado, Pedro and Juan de Urdemalas, Ali Baba, Don Dinero, Tio Botitas and others.
The collection contains descriptions, traditions, local history and songs for New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, Missouri, Kansas and Mexico. There are references to the Civil War in New Mexico, the Spanish American War, World War I and World War II. Stories tell of superstitions, supernatural, unexplained phenomenon, balls of fire and light, lightening, a comet, the sun, moon, finding treasure, ghosts, devils and magic. Additional topics include traditional food and cooking, health and home remedies. Included also are stories and references to insects, animals, birds, fish and snakes, as well as floods and storms, and automobiles and airplanes.
The informants are mainly from New Mexico and Colorado, with a few from California, Texas and Mexico. The collections focuses heavily on spoken Spanish, with examples of poetry, riddles, proverbs, legends, anecdotes, folk tales, mysteries, prayers, nursery rhymes, games, jokes, language use, tricky words, tongue twisters, memories, local history and family history. The Spanish songs include alabados, entriegas for weddings and baptisms, inditas, corridos and ballads, pastores, posadas, love songs, folk dance music, etc. Traditions of Los Juanes and Los Manueles, Penitente morada practices, including women Penitentes, Holy Week songs and activities and the role of the church, santos and fiestas in the lives of the people are also included. There are also several lectures on folklore, music and culture by Cobos and other scholars, including Fray Angelico Chavez, Charles Briggs, Alfonso Ortiz, Arthur Leon Campa, Marta Weigle, Guadalupe Baca Vaughn, Anita Thomas and others. Included also are autobiographical accounts by Ruben Cobos and his wife Elvira.
Songs and stories about and for children, their health and education are included. Although the majority of the information is about Spanish and Hispanic traditions, the collection also provides some materials by and about non-Hispanics and the relationship between the races. A small amount of stories and songs relate to Apaches, Navajos, Pueblos, Mexicanos, African Americans, and Anglos (gringos).
Songs and stories by or about males show them in every walk of life, as rich and poor, old and young, as husbands, widowers, fathers, sons, relatives, compadres, friends, orphans, opponents, collaborators, kings, princes, commoners, giants, ranchers, cowboys, shepherds, farmers, woodcutters, shoemakers, vendors, railroaders, hunters, priests, doctors, teachers, politicians, attorneys, meteorologists, soldiers, witches, simpletons, gamblers, murderers, drunks, adulturers and thieves.
Recordings by and about women add value and perspective to the collection. Females are rich and poor, old and young, girl friends, lovers, adulteresses, wives, widows, mothers, comadres, church attendees, housekeepers for priests, nuns, princesses, queens, teachers, curanderas, cooks and witches. Some of the characters found in the collection are Cinderella, Genoveva de Brabanate, Goldilocks, Delgadina, La Llorona, Doña Cebolla, Dona Fortuna and the Virgin Mary, as well as San Antonio, San Pedro, Bartoldo, Don Cacahuate, Juan Charrasqueado, Pedro and Juan de Urdemalas, Ali Baba, Don Dinero, Tio Botitas and others.
The collection contains descriptions, traditions, local history and songs for New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, Missouri, Kansas and Mexico. There are references to the Civil War in New Mexico, the Spanish American War, World War I and World War II. Stories tell of superstitions, supernatural, unexplained phenomenon, balls of fire and light, lightening, a comet, the sun, moon, finding treasure, ghosts, devils and magic. Additional topics include traditional food and cooking, health and home remedies. Included also are stories and references to insects, animals, birds, fish and snakes, as well as floods and storms, and automobiles and airplanes.
Dates
- 1975
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.)
General
Griego, 1975: Higinia Salas. Cobos notes for CD 378 in folder. Begins at 00:02 and ends at 6:20. Story, A mother and lost son (poor recording, inaudible story).
Martinez, 1975: Blas Chavez, born 1909, Ranchos de Taos, aka Los Cordova, NM. This CD similar to Chavez material on CD 363. Begins at 6:48 and ends at 16:56. 1. The rancher and banker (good recording, chiste, joke about a rancher who asked a banker for fifty dollars to buy tools, humor); 2. Chiste, The rancher with many animals (good recording, joke, cat, rabbit, child left home alone, children); 3. El oso y el leon (good recording, bear and lion, chiste, joke, humor, animal story); 4. Chiste, El ratoncito y el toro (good recording, animal story, joke); 5. Chiste, El ratoncito y la vaca (good recording, animal story, rat and cow, joke, humor); 6. Chiste, The sun and the moon (good recording, joke, humor); 7. Chiste, The Sheepherders (good recording, borrequeros, sheep); 7. Dichos (good recording, sayings, proverbs); 8. Cuento, Dos pastores y un sacerdote, two shepherds and a priest. Cobos notes for CD 378 in folder).
Burkhead, 1975: Jenny Chavez Montoya, from Los Griegos, Albuquerque, NM. Begins at 16:58 and ends at 25:42. 1. Personal information (good recording, family has been living in Los Griegos for six or seven generations, came from the island of Crete, Greece, Greeks, and migrated to Spain, the Spaniards could not pronounce the last name and so they said Griego, origin of last name, genealogy); 2. Cuento (good recording, story about a cat, speaker learned story from her grandmother, story has been published by Professor Sabine Ulibarri at University of New Mexico, talking cat); 3. Cuento (good recording, funny story about an elderly woman who lived alone, she was always smiling and laughing, a thief breaks into the home of the old woman and demands her money, pellejo, dog, cat, the woman captured the thief); 4. Cuento (good recording, story. Cobos notes in folder).
Monahan, 1975: Maria Eufelia Rodriguez, born 1901, Las Truchas, NM. Begins at 25:48 and ends at 32:30. 1. El padre (poor to fair recording, story about a man and a cow, vaca, a priest wanted the vaca, son said that the priest slept with his mother, spoiled the plan, blackmail, church, religion); 2. Personal information (fair recording, speaker paid the priest $2 for a mass, he took the money and bought drinks, liquor, drinking, her mother was from Chimayo, her father from Truchas, Disiderio Montoya); 3. Story (fair recording, about a man and woman who had a baby, ask for sponsors for baptism, father meets Jesus, rejects him as sponsor, poverty, padrino, later he meets death, la muerte, death baptised the child, Pedro de Urdemales, hijado de un doctor. Cobos notes in folder).
Monahan, 1975: Eusebio Romero, born March 2nd, 1904, Las Truchas, NM. Begins at 32:32 and ends at 39:45. 1. anecdote, bread making lesson (poor recording, about women making bread, humor, laughter); 2. Personal history (poor recording, about speaker and his family, father was named Miguel Antonio Romero, Mother was named Maria Antonia Barela de Romero); 3. Cuento (poor recording, story about a famous shepherd who was beaten by a priest because did not say, Buenos Dias dele Dios, Bueno Dias la de Dios, the king, and the three questions. Cobos notes in folder).
Monahan, 1975: Anonymous. Begins at 39:46 and ends at 43:30. 1. Adivinanzas (good recording, riddles, el huevo, el burro, el chicle, el crucifo, los ojos, la sepultura, death, muerte); 2. Personal information (good recording, family history. Cobos notes in folder).
White, 1975: Maria Jacques, Maria Jaques, born 1931, Albuquerque, NM. Begins at 43:31 and ends at 45:23. Family history (good recording, speaker's grandfather who came from France to Canada, to United States, to Las Vegas, New Mexico, genealogy, then tall tales, about the pumpkins in New Mexico and a French man's tale of a huge bread in Spain. Jacquez. Cobos notes in folder).
White, 1975: Carolina L' Esperance, born 1903 in Albuquerque, NM. Begins at 45:24 and ends at 47:26. 1. Adivinanzas (fair recording, riddles, el huevo, el trigo, el arroz, el punte, dos palomitas); 2. Dichos (fair recording, sayings, proverbs, haciendo lo mismo de siempre, keep working, if not like it do it anyway, not praise self, know too much, prayer of humility. Cobos notes in folder).
White, 1975: Maria Jacques, born 1905, Albuquerque, NM. Begins at 47:28 and ends at 49:28. Dichos (good recording, sayings, proverbs, wisdom, advice, codeswitch into English, Spanish language, Bilingual speaker, Spanglish. Cobos notes in folder).
White, 1975: Carolina L'Esperance, born 1903, Albuquerque, NM. Begins at 49:34 and ends at 55:59. 1. Dichos (fair recording ); 2. Cuento (fair recording, story about a son who ties up his father and is going to shoot him with a rifle because he has reached fifty years of age, the father begs for fifty more years, humorous story); 3. Story of king who lost wife (fair recording, about a queen during child birth, the baby girl grew up, they did not want her to marry or have sex, but she did anyway, king lets her marry but will kill the husband if he touches her, she visits the sponsors of the wedding, sees them having sex, wants it also, women, marriage. Cobos notes in folder).
White, 1975: Pedro Jaques, born 1905, Albuquerque, NM and Las Vegas. Begins at 56:00 and ends at 59:10. Personal information (fair to poor recording, experiences, information about speaker's family and parents, family history, Jacquez. Cobos notes in folder).
White, 1975: Maria Jacques, born 1905, Albuquerque, NM. Begins at 59:13 and ends at 60:38. Adivinanzas (fair to poor recording, riddle, el pecho de la mujer en la boca del nino, breast feeding, children, mother, women, children, infant, lo que hacen lluvia, what makes rain, weather. Cobos notes in folder).
White, 1975: Pedro Jaques born 1905, Albuquerque, NM. Begins at 60:39 and ends at 61:18. Adivinanza, las llaves (fair to poor recording).
White, 1975: Pedro Jaques and Maria Jaques, born 1905, Albuquerque, NM. Begins at 61:21 and ends at 76:05. Entriega (fair to poor recording, entriega, singing, duet, local traditions, marriage, wedding, long verses, verses are written out in the Cobos folder, Maria gives personal information about her wedding day and fiesta, and states that this entriega isn't used anymore. Cobos notes in folder_.
Martinez, 1975: Blas Chavez, born 1909, Ranchos de Taos, aka Los Cordova, NM. This CD similar to Chavez material on CD 363. Begins at 6:48 and ends at 16:56. 1. The rancher and banker (good recording, chiste, joke about a rancher who asked a banker for fifty dollars to buy tools, humor); 2. Chiste, The rancher with many animals (good recording, joke, cat, rabbit, child left home alone, children); 3. El oso y el leon (good recording, bear and lion, chiste, joke, humor, animal story); 4. Chiste, El ratoncito y el toro (good recording, animal story, joke); 5. Chiste, El ratoncito y la vaca (good recording, animal story, rat and cow, joke, humor); 6. Chiste, The sun and the moon (good recording, joke, humor); 7. Chiste, The Sheepherders (good recording, borrequeros, sheep); 7. Dichos (good recording, sayings, proverbs); 8. Cuento, Dos pastores y un sacerdote, two shepherds and a priest. Cobos notes for CD 378 in folder).
Burkhead, 1975: Jenny Chavez Montoya, from Los Griegos, Albuquerque, NM. Begins at 16:58 and ends at 25:42. 1. Personal information (good recording, family has been living in Los Griegos for six or seven generations, came from the island of Crete, Greece, Greeks, and migrated to Spain, the Spaniards could not pronounce the last name and so they said Griego, origin of last name, genealogy); 2. Cuento (good recording, story about a cat, speaker learned story from her grandmother, story has been published by Professor Sabine Ulibarri at University of New Mexico, talking cat); 3. Cuento (good recording, funny story about an elderly woman who lived alone, she was always smiling and laughing, a thief breaks into the home of the old woman and demands her money, pellejo, dog, cat, the woman captured the thief); 4. Cuento (good recording, story. Cobos notes in folder).
Monahan, 1975: Maria Eufelia Rodriguez, born 1901, Las Truchas, NM. Begins at 25:48 and ends at 32:30. 1. El padre (poor to fair recording, story about a man and a cow, vaca, a priest wanted the vaca, son said that the priest slept with his mother, spoiled the plan, blackmail, church, religion); 2. Personal information (fair recording, speaker paid the priest $2 for a mass, he took the money and bought drinks, liquor, drinking, her mother was from Chimayo, her father from Truchas, Disiderio Montoya); 3. Story (fair recording, about a man and woman who had a baby, ask for sponsors for baptism, father meets Jesus, rejects him as sponsor, poverty, padrino, later he meets death, la muerte, death baptised the child, Pedro de Urdemales, hijado de un doctor. Cobos notes in folder).
Monahan, 1975: Eusebio Romero, born March 2nd, 1904, Las Truchas, NM. Begins at 32:32 and ends at 39:45. 1. anecdote, bread making lesson (poor recording, about women making bread, humor, laughter); 2. Personal history (poor recording, about speaker and his family, father was named Miguel Antonio Romero, Mother was named Maria Antonia Barela de Romero); 3. Cuento (poor recording, story about a famous shepherd who was beaten by a priest because did not say, Buenos Dias dele Dios, Bueno Dias la de Dios, the king, and the three questions. Cobos notes in folder).
Monahan, 1975: Anonymous. Begins at 39:46 and ends at 43:30. 1. Adivinanzas (good recording, riddles, el huevo, el burro, el chicle, el crucifo, los ojos, la sepultura, death, muerte); 2. Personal information (good recording, family history. Cobos notes in folder).
White, 1975: Maria Jacques, Maria Jaques, born 1931, Albuquerque, NM. Begins at 43:31 and ends at 45:23. Family history (good recording, speaker's grandfather who came from France to Canada, to United States, to Las Vegas, New Mexico, genealogy, then tall tales, about the pumpkins in New Mexico and a French man's tale of a huge bread in Spain. Jacquez. Cobos notes in folder).
White, 1975: Carolina L' Esperance, born 1903 in Albuquerque, NM. Begins at 45:24 and ends at 47:26. 1. Adivinanzas (fair recording, riddles, el huevo, el trigo, el arroz, el punte, dos palomitas); 2. Dichos (fair recording, sayings, proverbs, haciendo lo mismo de siempre, keep working, if not like it do it anyway, not praise self, know too much, prayer of humility. Cobos notes in folder).
White, 1975: Maria Jacques, born 1905, Albuquerque, NM. Begins at 47:28 and ends at 49:28. Dichos (good recording, sayings, proverbs, wisdom, advice, codeswitch into English, Spanish language, Bilingual speaker, Spanglish. Cobos notes in folder).
White, 1975: Carolina L'Esperance, born 1903, Albuquerque, NM. Begins at 49:34 and ends at 55:59. 1. Dichos (fair recording ); 2. Cuento (fair recording, story about a son who ties up his father and is going to shoot him with a rifle because he has reached fifty years of age, the father begs for fifty more years, humorous story); 3. Story of king who lost wife (fair recording, about a queen during child birth, the baby girl grew up, they did not want her to marry or have sex, but she did anyway, king lets her marry but will kill the husband if he touches her, she visits the sponsors of the wedding, sees them having sex, wants it also, women, marriage. Cobos notes in folder).
White, 1975: Pedro Jaques, born 1905, Albuquerque, NM and Las Vegas. Begins at 56:00 and ends at 59:10. Personal information (fair to poor recording, experiences, information about speaker's family and parents, family history, Jacquez. Cobos notes in folder).
White, 1975: Maria Jacques, born 1905, Albuquerque, NM. Begins at 59:13 and ends at 60:38. Adivinanzas (fair to poor recording, riddle, el pecho de la mujer en la boca del nino, breast feeding, children, mother, women, children, infant, lo que hacen lluvia, what makes rain, weather. Cobos notes in folder).
White, 1975: Pedro Jaques born 1905, Albuquerque, NM. Begins at 60:39 and ends at 61:18. Adivinanza, las llaves (fair to poor recording).
White, 1975: Pedro Jaques and Maria Jaques, born 1905, Albuquerque, NM. Begins at 61:21 and ends at 76:05. Entriega (fair to poor recording, entriega, singing, duet, local traditions, marriage, wedding, long verses, verses are written out in the Cobos folder, Maria gives personal information about her wedding day and fiesta, and states that this entriega isn't used anymore. Cobos notes in folder_.
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