Box 12
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Other items, an article from El Nuevo Mexicano, Santa Fe New Mexican, Santa Fe, April 10, 1952, under the heading El Folklore Hispano Nuevomexicano, that is written by Josue Trujillo, thus apparently not Cobos, in Spanish, tells about New Mexico Hispanic and Mexican men, manitos, Mexicanos, going to work in Colorado, Kansas or California after World War I and World War II, reflecting social and economic changes in the United States, Bracero program, labor, Mexican border, Borderlands, migration, immigration, includes the lyrics, text to the corrido Ya Me Voy Pa California, by Jose Romero, of Cordova, New Mexico, song includes date 1926, mentions man was a New Mexican, Hispano Americano, seeking work, traveling on the railroad train, Las Vegas, Pueblo, Colorado, land of the Utes, Kansas, Nevada, Caliente, mentions his costs, wages, salary. Folder also includes a newspaper story, dated November 30, 1950, New Mexico Daily Lobo, see also related in Lobo - December 5 and 6, about T. M. Pearce, UNM English professor, who wrote an article for Western Folklore in 1950 on El Mal Hijo, the well known New Mexico Spanish folk story of the bad son or daughter, who disobeyed a parent and was punished with a withered or lame arm or leg, a story also found in the Cobos collection., 1950, 1952
File — Box: 12, Folder: 20
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:
1950, 1952