Box 12
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Articles by Ruben Cobos, from July 6 - July 27, 1950. In July 6, 1950 Cobos provides the complete lyrics, text for the Decima Filosofica, communicated to him by Norberto Bernal, Sr., from Chacon, New Mexico, with serious advice about life and death, vida and muerte, that nothing endures forever, from kings to the most poor, includes comments by Cobos, decima form and music is from Spain, a type of poesia popular, he also includes a humorous decima, called Decima Humoristica, Mentiras, given to Cobos by J. M. Lovato, Amalia, New Mexico, is like those from the fifteenth century Spain, medieval times, singer complains of problems, worst is from piojos, lice. In July 13, 1950, is a decima, from Justinano Atencio, from Cebolla, New Mexico, called Los Padres Consentididores, about a son who turned bad, family, children, discipline, education. In July 20, 1950 article, Cobos turns to La Cancion Nuevo Mexicano, gives background of what are truly local regional songs from New Mexico, examples, indicate songs of Indians and Hispanos who have been killed by Anglos, inter racial, descrimination, struggle, war, muerte, death - one En Santa Fe los hueritos, fragments of the Indita de Tomasito, American Indian, Native American, killed by the Anglo North Americans, also Indita de Manuelito, an Indian, Native American, Navajo, killed by Anglo American traitors Charles and Captain Gray (Paddy Graydon), followed by fragment of Indita de Eustacio Lovato, an Hispanic killed by the Anglo Americans, Texans, Texas, and a fragment of the Indita de Mariano Leyba, Marino Leyba, who was killed by the Anglo Americans, land claim, he had an Indian wife, at San Antonito, New Mexico, East Mountains. In July 27, 1950, Cobos notes that the Anglos have also died in fights among each other, he gives a fragment of the Indita de Manuelito, within the song is mention of the United States Army Captain, James Graydon, James Paddy Graydon, who had killed the Navajo Chief Manuelito, Graydon himself later died at Fort Sumner, on the Rio Bonito, Lincoln County area, in a fight with the Army Doctor, Dr. John M. Whitlock, who had criticized Graydon for heartlessly impaling a Navajo baby on his bayonet, the Captain refused to accept the rebuke. Cobos also prints the Indita de Manuel B. Otero, by Sasimiro Lujan, of Torreon, New Mexico, in which the Anglo American James Whitney, from Boston, and his men (here called Whittier) came to Otero's ranch in Estancia, New Mexico, and claimed to own it, August 16, 1883, Otero is killed by the Anglos and Whitney is wounded, see Folder 7., July 1950
File — Box: 12, Folder: 15
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:
July 1950