Box 8
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Sounds of Mexico, oral histories - short interviews, at various places, everyday noises. Good recording, no notes in Box lid. This is a recording of the sounds from the lifestyle of Mexico, daily life, culture, music. The sounds in this CD are: 1. A typical song named Las Mananitas which is sing by the Mariachis; 2. Voices of people at Chapultepec Park, leisure, family; 3. Mexican children in a classroom, education, school; 4. Voices and sounds of Mexico; 5. Voices of the University Stadium,sports; 6. Women selling tacos outside the stadium, food, cooking; 7. Mexican ambulance and police, emergency, law enforcement; 8. Voices and sounds around San Francisco church, religion, faith; 9. A famous champion racing car driver named Ricardo Rodriguez talks in an interview; 10. Tourists talk to a street seller, business, commerce; 11. Mexican cowboys, vaqueros, charros; 12. Bull fight and matador Ranchero Jorge Aguilar, corrido de toros; 13. Voices at La Merced, which is a largest marketplace of Mexico City, trading; 14. Young man studying law at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, ley, education; 15. San Juan of Teotihuacan; 16. President talking about independence of Mexico; 17. Mexican waltz called Over the Waves; 18. Streets of Mexico; 19. Mexican Railroad; 20. Plaza Garibaldi and Mariachis.
File — Box: 8, CD: MUS 50
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...
Dates:
n.d. - 1976