Box 12
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Articles on New Mexico folklore, by Ruben Cobos, in El Nuevo Mexicano, Santa Fe New Mexican, Santa Fe, New Mexico, written in Spanish, based on his field research and from material sent him by local people, they are a good introduction to, history of, and examples of the New Mexico folk songs and poems found in the Cobos collection. In an article for September 22, 1949, titled Concurso de Folklore, Cobos gives the purpose of this project to preserve the New Mexico Spanish folklore heritage and to encourage a renewed interest in the same, he said he would give cash prizes for participants who sent their notebooks, cuadernos, with folklore to him at UNM, he copiled them and returned them, and printed some of the material in his articles for the newspaper, and the newspaper itself also provided a one year subscription to the winners. Dates of series to run October 6, 1949 to February 25, 1950. The September 22, 1949 newspaper has a notice that, in addition to the news, it will be running articles on tradition and culture. In the October 6, 1949 article, Cobos gives an introduction to and the meaning of folklore in New Mexico, with examples of types of folkore, article is continued, second page missing in this folder, also missing on the microfilm of same. In October 13, 1949, Segunda Parte, Cobos addresses poems, poesia, poetry in New Mexico, some transferred from Spain, other poetry was created locally within New Mexico and is thus truly New Mexican folklore, and some poetry transferred to New Mexico from Mexico, conclusion that many such poems were spread across the entire Spanish colonial world to North America and South America, including to New Mexico, describes types of poetry, verses, coplas, valses chiqueados, chiqueaos, entriegas, entregas, los Manueles, dias de las mananitas, etc. Article for October 20, 1949, Tercera Parte, gives history and origins of the decima, la cancion of New Mexico (note therein to see article 5 Quinta Parte, about algunos aspectos de la cancion en New Mexico), poem or song of ten lines, rhyme very varied, sometimes without dividing the stanzas, he give a long example of a decima - Estando de ocioso un dia. He continues with the Cuarta Parte, more about about poetry, decimas, la planta de la decima, the base of the decima is la copla, couplet, have different topics, themes, he gives examples of coplas for - Tristes los dos estaremos, and proceedes to write about entregas, entriegas, with an example of a marriage, wedding entrega from Bernalillo, New Mexico, by Frank M. Chavez, Napoleon Trujillo, Demecio Aragon and Fidel Romero., September - October 1949
File — Box: 12, Folder: 6
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:
September - October 1949