Consuelo Luz Entrega Recording
Collection
Identifier: MU-24
Scope and Content
Consuelo Luz donated this recording of her entrega or wedding song to the University of New Mexico Fine Arts Library in 1994. It is entitled "A Marriage Made in Heaven." She created and performed it in Spanish and English at the Southwest Hispanic Arts Curriculum Symposium, held at UNM on August 12-13, 1994.
A wedding song or entrega de novios - is a song of delivery or turning over for safekeeping. It is sung when the godparents of the bride and groom surrender them from their own family unto the care of each other. Traditionally, the wedding entrega songs are composed and created on the spot, to suit each different situation, family and couple. As in the old way, Luz composed this special 1994 symposium entrega song on the spot, during the breaks of the second afternoon of the program. As an entrega is supposed to do, the song made the people both laugh and cry. Luz wrote a letter to describe what a wedding entrega was and what it means to the Hispanic people of northern New Mexico.
She also wrote out the words of this symposium song in both Spanish and English. A copy of her letter with the background information and the words is enclosed with the cassette. In the closing of her 1994 letter, Luz said that she composed and sang this special entrega "to put a sacred seal on what had taken place that weekend, which she saw as a marriage between the Hispanic artistic community and the UNM academic community - a marriage made in heaven - Ojala!"
Forms part of the John Donald Robb Archive of Southwestern Music.
A wedding song or entrega de novios - is a song of delivery or turning over for safekeeping. It is sung when the godparents of the bride and groom surrender them from their own family unto the care of each other. Traditionally, the wedding entrega songs are composed and created on the spot, to suit each different situation, family and couple. As in the old way, Luz composed this special 1994 symposium entrega song on the spot, during the breaks of the second afternoon of the program. As an entrega is supposed to do, the song made the people both laugh and cry. Luz wrote a letter to describe what a wedding entrega was and what it means to the Hispanic people of northern New Mexico.
She also wrote out the words of this symposium song in both Spanish and English. A copy of her letter with the background information and the words is enclosed with the cassette. In the closing of her 1994 letter, Luz said that she composed and sang this special entrega "to put a sacred seal on what had taken place that weekend, which she saw as a marriage between the Hispanic artistic community and the UNM academic community - a marriage made in heaven - Ojala!"
Forms part of the John Donald Robb Archive of Southwestern Music.
Dates
- 1994
Creator
- Luz, Consuelo (Person)
Language of Materials
English
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Copy Restrictions
Limited duplication of CSWR material is allowed for research purposes. User is responsible for compliance with all copyright, privacy, and libel laws. Permission is required for publications or distribution.
Biography / History
In 1994, Luz was living in Santa Fe. She was a traditional Spanish entregador or singer of entregas. Over the years, Luz had written and delivered countless entregas at the weddings she had attended in the Taos and Peñasco area of New Mexico.
Extent
1 CDs
Abstract
The collection consists of one recording of the special Hispanic wedding entrega song composed and sung in Spanish and English by Consuelo Luz for the Southwest Hispanic Arts Curriculum Symposium at the University of New Mexico in 1994. Included also are the meaning of an entriega and the lyrics of this song.
Creator
- Luz, Consuelo (Person)
- Title
- Consuelo Luz Entriega Recording, 1994
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Nancy Brown-Martinez
- Date
- ©2008
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is in English
Revision Statements
- Monday, 20210524: Attribute normal is missing or blank.
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
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