Box 2
Container
Contains 117 Results:
Anita Salazar, recorder, 1971
Item — Box: 2, CD: 161
Scope and Contents
Mrs. Bennie Armijo, Los Lunas, NM. Brujas. La embrujada (Part II, the woman goes to the herb healer and he has all doors and windows shut to keep out the witches, who appear as so many owls, arbolorio takes nails, bandana, etc. from the patient's swollen knees, cures her, curandera, witchcraft).
Dates:
1971
Gary Garcia, Margaret Amador, recorders, 1971, 1973
Item — Box: 2, CD: 162
Scope and Contents
Garcia, 1971: Lazaro Frank Griego, b. 1888, Mexico. Cuento: Los dos hermanos (why the ocean is salty, a poor man goes to rich brother for help, brother turns him down, poor man finds a large ham, exchanges it for a magic mill that gives him everything he asks for, man's son goes in navy, takes the mill, is killed by pirates, they ask mill to make salt to sell when get to port, don't know magic words to stop it, so mill continues to make salt in the ocean water today, folk tale, explanatory...
Dates:
1971, 1973
Margaret Amador, recorder, 1973
Item — Box: 2, CD: 163
Scope and Contents
Trinidad Delgado, b. 1897, Las Vegas, NM. El que hizo reir a la princesa (Part II, after the young man marries the princess, he keeps working for a ranch owner, the ranch owner bets the young man that he is not married to a princess, he loses the bet and the young man wins everything the man owns, folk tale). Delia Moya, b. 1913, Albuquerque, NM. Dos leperos (two rogues, thieves, try to make money, one pretends to be dead, his friend collects money for the funeral, a drunk comes by,...
Dates:
1973
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...
Dates:
1972
Ruben Cobos, recorder, 1972
Item — Box: 2, CD: 165
Scope and Contents
Alberto Romero, b. 1922, Logan, NM. Spanish and Mexican folk dances, recordings and comments. 1. Chiapanecas (good to fair recording, maybe commercial, baile, dancing, refers to the girls of the state of Chiapas, Mexico, where this folk dance originated, music includes an estribillo or refrain during which dancers and audience join in the fun by clapping their hands, usually danced in a faster than normal 3/4 time); 2. Las espuelas (good to fair recording, maybe commercial, the spurs - is a...
Dates:
1972
Ruben Cobos, recorder, 1972
Item — Box: 2, CD: 166
Scope and Contents
Alberto Romero, b. 1922, Logan, NM. 1. Versos del chiquiado,chiquiao (fair recording, many poetic strophes, verses, dance game, more that CD 164); The following are poor recordings. 2. Los diez perritos (puppies, similar to ten little Indians, school song, education, children); 3. La rana (folk song for children, frog and rat, mouse, agglutinate, folk song); 4. Desde que llegue a este punto (title of a late nineteenth century Mexican American folk song, later 1800s, the singer, composer is...
Dates:
1972
Emilio Chavez, George Rivera, Christine Armijo, recorders, 1974
Item — Box: 2, CD: 167
Scope and Contents
Chavez, 1974: Felicitas Lopez y Torres, b. 1904, Truchas, NM. 1. Carta convidando a padrinos de bautismo, baptism letter (she reads a letter dated February 10, 1917 inviting Mr. and Mrs. Juan Trujillo to serve as sponsors for a baptismal ceremony, parents and child identified as Mr. and Mrs. Ricardo Ortiz, all parties are from Truchas, New Mexico, includes versos de bautismo, baptism customs); 2. Carta convidando a padrinos de casorio, wedding letter (she reads a letter dated March 12, 1917 in...
Dates:
1974
Emilio Chavez, recorder, 1974
Item — Box: 2, CD: 168
Scope and Contents
Jose Montoya, b. 1915, San Pedro, NM. 1. Datos personales (states name, fifty nine years old, and from San Pedro, New Mexico, personal information); 2. Refranes (twelve New Mexican proverbs, one delivering us from a young upstart, crazy newcomer, newly rich person, making unwanted changes, in New Mexico Spanish un piojo resucitado, language). Felicitas Lopez y Torres, b. 1904, Truchas, NM. 1. Datos personales (states name, seventy years old, born Las Truchas, New Mexico, still...
Dates:
1974
Jon Smith, recorder, 1969
Item — Box: 2, CD: 169
Scope and Contents
Andres Lujan, b. 1863, El Torreon, NM. This likely Torreon, in Torrance County. 1. La vida de antes (relato, life in the past, leisure, games, how and where they danced, dance floors were dirt needed to put water on them for dust, game of teja, foot races, people chasing one and other, catching a person, carrying them piggy back to center of town); 2. Versos de chiquiao, chiquiado,commentary (poor recording, folk poetry, he tells how people created and recited these poem in the past, marriage,...
Dates:
1969
Ruben Cobos, recorder, 1973
Item — Box: 2, CD: 170
Scope and Contents
Epifanio Gutierrez, b. 1885, La Jara, NM. 1. Conversacion (recalls school books used at the turn of the century, 1890s, maxims learned from Mantilla Book I, one about Arbol torcido, as twig bent so will tree grow, education, bringing up children, discipline); 2. Libros (school books he had as child, 1890s, all in Spanish languague, education reader series Libros de Mantilla, teaching practical as well as moral lessons, he put the ex libris in his Book III, liken to woe to those who find and not...
Dates:
1973
Ruben Cobos, recorder, 1973
Item — Box: 2, CD: 171
Scope and Contents
Epifanio Gutierrez, b. 1885, La Jara, NM. 1. Conversacion (more about tortillas neshas, origin of word cochino, etc., that local New Mexico Spanish vocabulary is not bad, children should not be deprived of their Spanish language as learned at home, Bilingual, preservation of traditional Spanish, education, school, English language); 2. Judios (conversation, Spanish ninos no bautizados, before Hispanic children were baptised they were called judios by their parents and family, after baptism they...
Dates:
1973
Elvira Cobos, recorder, 1975
Item — Box: 2, CD: 172
Scope and Contents
Annie Gallegos, b. 1921, Santa Cruz, NM. 1. Datos personales (Annie born in Santa Cruz, New Mexico, July 26, 1921, lived all her life there, married, one daughter, three grandchildren); 2. Remedios de la gente, remedios de la casa, yerbas (cures, herbs, medicine, illness, ruda, rue use for headaches, dry leaves ground, mixed with nuez, nutmeg and camphor; placed on temples, also stamps from small bags of Bull Durham tobacco used for headaches); 3. Frijol para aire (pinto bean cut in half, for...
Dates:
1975
George Rivera, recorder, 1974
Item — Box: 2, CD: 173
Scope and Contents
Mela Gallegos, b. 1921, Mexico. La princesa que no se reia (folk tale, young man seeking his fortune, king offers hand of daughter, old man with good advice for youth, eventually he marries princess). Santiago Rivera, b. 1944, Tucumcari, NM. (Cobos note: maybe Gallegos?) 1. El del velorio (anecdote, man attends many wakes mostly so he can eat food, goes to one where they never give him food, he is annoyed, criticizes it as a small affair, as for an angelito, child, funeral, death,...
Dates:
1974
Ruben Cobos, recorder, 1972
Item — Box: 2, CD: 174
Scope and Contents
Maria Chavez, b. 1942, Grants, NM. 1. Musica mejicana (good to fair recording, five recordings of Mexican folk music from around Veracruz, Mexico); 2. Casamiento en Grants (good to fair recording, Part I, recording of a wedding marriage ceremony in the Catholic Church, in Grants, New Mexico, cont. on CD 175).
Dates:
1972
Ruben Cobos, Anonymous, recorders, 1972
Item — Box: 2, CD: 175
Scope and Contents
Cobos, 1972: Maria Chavez, b. 1942, Grants, NM. Part II, casamiento en Grants, wedding, marriage).
Anonymous, 1972: Anonymous. Entriega de novios (fair recording, singer, with instrumental accompaniment, from El Guique, New Mexico, in Espanola area).
Anonymous, 1972: Anonymous. Entriega de novios (fair recording, heard in Espanola, El Guique, Hernandez, and Abiquiu, New Mexico, etc., instrumental accompaniment).
Anonymous, 1972: Anonymous. Entriega de novios (fair recording, singer, with instrumental accompaniment, from El Guique, New Mexico, in Espanola area).
Anonymous, 1972: Anonymous. Entriega de novios (fair recording, heard in Espanola, El Guique, Hernandez, and Abiquiu, New Mexico, etc., instrumental accompaniment).
Dates:
1972
Ruben Cobos, recorder, 1964
Item — Box: 2, CD: 176
Scope and Contents
Cancioneros Anonimos Mexicanos. 1. Palomita blanca (Mexican folk song, shy boy lover and girl who will trap him like spider with insects, rain clouds, man drinks because is losing his girl, women); 2. Soy mejicano, soy de Chihuahua (Mexican song, man praises Mexico, flag and its three colors; mention of Mexican aviator Carranza, made non stop flight Mexico City to New York, died later near Washington, DC, airplane mechanical trouble) ; 3. Corrido de Jesus Cadena, ballad (shoots his girl in...
Dates:
1964
Ruben Cobos, Debra Britten, recorders, 1964, 1972
Item — Box: 2, CD: 177
Scope and Contents
Cobos, 1964: Cancioneros Anonimos. 1. Las posadas mejicanas (Part II); 2. Las mananitas (this folk song is the original Mananitas, which is slightly different than the common Mananitas birthday tune, but both have the same chorus lyrics); 3. Nicanor (folk song, girl is talking to Nicanor, she is leaving but will be faithful, gives him a religious scapular she embroidered for him, women); 4. El hijo prodigo (folk song, man is in prison, penitentiary, has gone astray, blames his inexperience, has...
Dates:
1964, 1972
Debra Britten, recorder, 1972
Item — Box: 2, CD: 178
Scope and Contents
Luciano Baca, b. 1880, Belen, NM. 1. Cancion: Yo tenia un rancho (good to fair recording, fragment of song he composed about his ranch near Belen, New Mexico and Socorro County, there since he was fourteen years old); 2. Corrido de Heraclio Bernal (good to fair recording, Sinaloa, bandit, Mexico, reward for capture, crime, muerte, death); 3. Felipe Armijo y el caballo bronco, ranching, horses (relato, Felipe loosened the cinch on horse he wants Luciano to tame, break, Luciano survives and tames...
Dates:
1972
Ruben Cobos, E. R. Romero, Debbie Martin, Joseph H. Torres (Josh Torres), David Thornberg, Joyce Montoya, Sammy Quintana, Theresa Valdez, Eugene Romero, Tomas Fernandez, recorders, 1968, 1969, 1974
Item — Box: 2, CD: 179A
Scope and Contents
Cobos, 1974: Rosie Maestas, b. 1939, Las Vegas, NM. 1. El oso, la zorra, and las zorritas (folk tale, bear eats baby fox cubs, Cobos asks Rosie if she knows the story of the tres consejos, she knows the proverb but not the folk tale); 2. Las tripitas (folk tale, New Mexico version of Cinderella, instead of the fairy godmother, the Virgin Mary puts a gold stamp on her forehead, puts a horn on forehead of her mean stepsister, related adventures with prince charming); 3. El borracho en la misa...
Dates:
1968, 1969, 1974
Ruben Cobos, E. R. Romero, Debbie Martin, Joseph H. Torres (Josh Torres), David Thornberg, Joyce Montoya, Sammy Quintana, Theresa Valdez, Eugene Romero, Tomas Fernandez, recorders, 1968, 1969, 1974
Item — Box: 2, CD: 179B
Scope and Contents
Torres, 1968: Ricardo Farfan, b. 1913, Bernalillo, NM. 1. La escuela (verse, how in years past school was like a temple, ruled by virture, children received good example, leave vice and ignorance, importance of education, discovery, adventure, speaker explains verse, before kids kneeled and used benches as a desk); 2. Economizar (explanation and story, two economic minded women who economized their fans by moving their heads left and right) 3. Rapidez en el lenguaje (importance of ability to...
Dates:
1968, 1969, 1974
Ruben Cobos, E. R. Romero, Debbie Martin, Joseph H. Torres (Josh Torres), David Thornberg, Joyce Montoya, Sammy Quintana, Theresa Valdez, Eugene Romero, Tomas Fernandez, recorders, 1968, 1969, 1974
Item — Box: 2, CD: 179C
Scope and Contents
Romero, 1969: Fulgencia Duran, b. 1911, El Rancho, NM. El munequito (poor recording, cuento, story about a small boy doll, brujeria, witchcraft). Romero, 1969: Melesio Vigil, b. 1907, Santa Fe, NM. Fair to poor recording 1. El burro gordo y el flaco (cuento, story about a skinny donkey that is friends with a fat donkey); 2. Dos locos (cuento, story about two crazy men that encounter an Anglo American couple visiting New Mexico from Chicago); 3. Tres companeros (cuento, story about...
Dates:
1968, 1969, 1974
Julia Gabaldon, Susan Arnberger, recorders, 1970
Item — Box: 2, CD: 180
Scope and Contents
Gabaldon, 1970: Teodoro Montoya, b. 1891, San Juan, Arizona. 1. Decima (no hay amor como la madre, composition is recited); 2. Verso (folk poetry, poem about mothers and God, two beings that make men happy, women); 3. Las viejitas (verso, folk poetry about little old women, mischief, devious, see Cobos CC guide); 4. A echar pulgas a otra parte (song about Mexico, President Santa Ana, fleeing the country with all the money, pesos); 5. Versos de don Simon (folk poetry, don Simon is eighty years...
Dates:
1970
Lawrence Garcia, Gary Garcia, Roger Banks, recorders, 1971, 1972
Item — Box: 2, CD: 181
Scope and Contents
Lawrence Garcia, 1972: Lorenzo Garcia, Albuquerque, NM. Pedro de Urdemalas (Part II, Part I is on CD 133. Here Pedro is intelligent, outwits people, takes their livestock animals, mischief; one day he is put in sack and is to be thrown into the ocean, tricks man over a woman into trading places with him, escapes, other episodes). Gary Garcia, 1971: Lazaro Frank Griego, b. 1888, Albuquerque, NM. 1. El hermano pobre y el rico (folk tale, poor one asked rich for help, refuses, an old...
Dates:
1971, 1972
Anita Salazar, Phil Trujillo, Audilio Miranda, recorders, 1970, 1971
Item — Box: 2, CD: 182
Scope and Contents
Salazar, 1971: Mrs. Bennie Armijo, Los Lunas, NM. Cuento de brujas (Part II, witch stories, see CD 161 for Part I). Demetrio Montoya, b. 1886, Rainsville, NM. 1. La rana (fair recording, agglutinate song, about the rana, la mosca, la escoba, etc., children); 2. El leon y el grillo (folk tale, when a lion steps on a cricket, starts a war of the animals and insects, fox tries to fight but stun by angry bees, etc.); 3. Los tres consejos (folk tale, two men traveling come to fork in...
Dates:
1970, 1971
Audilio Miranda, 1970
Item — Box: 2, CD: 183
Scope and Contents
Joe Davis, b. 1902, Albuquerque, NM. 1. Don Cacahuate (Part II); 2. Don Cacahuate (anecdote, tired, hungry, he comes home from supper, wife Dona Cebolla is warming his food on some part of her body); 3. Don Cacahuate (anecdote, at night he sees lights on the highway, thinks they are motorcycles, turns out to be semi truck); 4. El espanol y el mejicano (anecdote, a Mexican and Spaniard going up a hill in a cart loaded with firewood, Spaniard asks Mexican to put a rock under the rear wheels,...
Dates:
1970