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Charlemaud Curtis Collection of Southwestern Music, Interviews and Programs

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Identifier: MSS-847-BC
Abstract The Curtis collection contains a wide variety of recordings including music, programs and interviews. They range from Navajo, Pueblo, Keresan, Laguna and Mescalero Apache and songs and dances, Spanish alabados, Christmas plays, and wedding dances and popular music, to Anglo American fiddle and cowboy tunes and African American gospel music. Also included are some songs from the Cheyenne and Plains Indians, the Tarahumara of Chihuahua, the Indians of Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia and Peru, and a...
Dates: 1960-1987

Consuelo Luz Entrega Recording

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Identifier: MU-24
Abstract The collection consists of one recording of the special Hispanic wedding entrega song composed and sung in Spanish and English by Consuelo Luz for the Southwest Hispanic Arts Curriculum Symposium at the University of New Mexico in 1994. Included also are the meaning of an entriega and the lyrics of this song.
Dates: 1994

Enrique Lamadrid Collection of Folk Songs, Oral Histories and Photographic Projects

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Identifier: MSS-840-BC
Abstract The collection features sound recordings and background information on Juan B. Rael, interviews and photos from the 1995 Farmers’ Markets Project in Colorado Springs, and folk music recordings (corridos, inditas, alabados and other traditional songs) and photographs with Native Americans and Hispanics of New Mexico, Cajuns in Texas, and Mexicans on the U.S. Mexican border. Topics covered range from life along the Rio Grande, the Penitentes, Matachines, the blessing of the acequias, tributes to...
Dates: 1930-2011

Frank McCulloch Collection of Spanish New Mexican, Mexican and American Music

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Identifier: MSS-956-BC
Abstract The collection consists of recordings of songs performed by Frank McCulloch, Jr. or Frank and his musical groups between 2008 and 2019. Some are original works while others are renditions of well-known songs from New Mexico, Mexico, Paraguay, Spain, Ireland, Scotland, England, and the United States. In addition, the collection contains material about McCulloch’s landscape paintings, teaching career, family history and photographs.
Dates: 1960-2019; Majority of material found within 2000-2017

Frank V. Mares and Bruna Valencia Mares “No Hay Cosa Como La Madre” recording and associated material

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Identifier: MSS-846-SC
Abstract The collection contains a Spanish mariachi song, “No Hay Cosa Como La Madre” composed by Frank and Bruna Mares for Frank’s mother.
Dates: 1985-1989

John Donald Robb Field Recordings

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Identifier: MU-7
Abstract The John Donald Robb Field Recordings consist of Hispanic, Native American, and Anglo music recorded between 1942-1979 in different parts of New Mexico, the Southwest, Mexico, and Latin America. The collection contains Hispanic folk music such as the alabado, the pastore, the decima, and the corrido. Additionally, Native American chants and dances, as well as Anglo cowboy and frontier ballads are represented in the collection.
Dates: 1942-1979

Juan S. Lucero and Lora L. Chavez Collection of New Mexico Hispanic Religious and Traditional Songs

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Identifier: MU-2
Abstract This is a collection of songs composed by Juan Sebedeo Lucero, along with a few other traditional New Mexico songs, sung by Lucero and family members. Included are alabanzas or songs of praise, corridos, romances, rancheros and samples of a few other song types such as an indita, polka and a waltz.
Dates: 1950-2008

Ken Keppeler and Jeanie McLerie collection of Northern New Mexico Hispanic music

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Identifier: MSS-838-BC
Abstract This collection consists primarily of recordings of traditional Hispanic folk music performed by musicians in Santa Fe, Chama, Tierra Amarilla, and Bernal, New Mexico. Included are a few ragtime, country, Mexican tunes, and other favorites.
Dates: 1980-1985

Alejandro López Papers and Ethnographic Interviews, 1971-2021

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Identifier: MSS-943-BC
Abstract This collection contains papers and interviews created and collected by Alejandro López from the 1970s to 2021. The papers relate to education, resolana, and service-learning programs, while the ethnographic interviews focus on elders from Chimayo, Truchas, and other Nuevomexicano communities.
Dates: 1971 - 2021

Native and Spanish Folklore Music

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Identifier: MSS-1071-BC
Scope and Content 15 vinyl records with speeds of either 45 rpm or 33 1/3 rpm. Recordings have been digitized. Six records have a record cover.
Dates: 1960s

New Mexico Composers' Archive

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Identifier: MSS-904-BC
Abstract This collection consists primarily of music manuscripts, but also contains sound recordings, correspondence, papers, programs, and photographs from composers from New Mexico or with important ties to New Mexico.
Dates: 1914-2014

Peter White Collection of New Mexico Fiddle Music

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Identifier: MSS-848-BC
Abstract This collection contains recordings of New Mexican fiddlers performing in their homes and at state fiddle contests, and a live KUNM folk music show. Included are discussions of the evolution of American folk songs, bowing techniques, history of the performers, etc. Represented are old style New Mexico, Texas, and Appalachian fiddle tunes, Anglo-American and Celtic folk songs.
Dates: 1977-1980

Roberto Martinez Collection of New Mexican and Mexican Music (See notes for more song title information)

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Identifier: MU-3
Abstract Collection contains commercial recordings, dating 1979 to 1994, of popular New Mexican and Mexican music performed by Roberto Marti­nez, his son, Lorenzo, daughter, Debbie, the music group, Los Reyes de Albuquerque, and other Marti­nez family members.
Dates: 1979-1994

Roberto Martínez Festival Performances with Los Reyes de Albuquerque

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Identifier: MSS-791-BC
Abstract Recordings of live performances by Los Reyes de Albuquerque at important regional festivals in the Southwest, recorded 1991-1995. Contains a wide repertoire of popular and traditional New Mexico music including corridos and songs interspersed with comments by group leader and song writer, Roberto Martínez.
Dates: 1991-2006

Ruben Cobos Collection of Southwestern Folklore and Folk Music

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Identifier: MSS-892-BC
Abstract 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 are 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.
Dates: 1930-2013; Majority of material found within 1944-1976

Sally Noe collection of Gallup oral histories and Southwest Native American music

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Identifier: MSS-837-BC
Abstract This collection contains oral history interviews, conducted in the 1980s-1990s with non-Native American people who describe their lives in the Gallup area. Their recollections date back to the early and mid-1900s. Interviewees include Indian trading post owners, rug traders, miners, railroad workers, loggers, ranchers, teachers, business operators, politicians, a Medal of Honor winner and a movie star stand-in. There are also several recordings of Navajo, Pueblo and Comanche music from ca....
Dates: circa 1920-2011; Majority of material found within (, 1979-1990)

Shirley Ann Griffin-Martin Recordings of Albuquerque African American Music and Programs

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Identifier: MSS-835-BC
Abstract The Shirley Ann Griffin-Martin collection features recordings of African American music and programs from Albuquerque in the 1980s, including popular music, speeches from several Juneteenth events, church gospel songs, sermons and a UNM Black History Month program.
Dates: 1985-1988

Virginia Ebinger Collection of Spanish Folk Music

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Identifier: MU-23
Abstract The collection contains a variety of street field recordings made in Spain, England, Mexico and New Mexico. Included are Gypsy dances in Granada; Easter Holy Week activities in Oaxaca, London and Torremolinos, Spain; Christmas La Posada programs in Santa Fe and Santa Cruz, New Mexico; and other examples of Spanish folk music.
Dates: 1990-1993

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Folk music -- New Mexico 7
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Popular music -- New Mexico 3
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Country music – New Mexico 2
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Folk dance music -- New Mexico 2
Folk songs, Spanish -- New Mexico 2
Hispanic Americans -- Music 2
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Inditas 2
Matachines (Music) 2
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Music – New Mexico 2
Navajo Indians -- Music 2
Photographs 2
Songs, Spanish -- Mexico 2
Songs, Spanish – New Mexico 2
African Americans -- Music 1
African Americans -- Social life and customs 1
African Americans – New Mexico – Music 1
Agriculture -- New Mexico 1
Agriculture --New Mexico--History 1
Art--Slides 1
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Blues (Music) 1
Celtic music – New Mexico 1
Christmas Music -- New Mexico 1
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Christmas plays -- New Mexico 1
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Corridos -- New Mexico 1
Country music 1
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Dance music – New Mexico 1
Decimas 1
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Education in New Mexico 1
Farm life -- New Mexico 1
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Folk music--New Mexico 1
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Folklore and history -- New Mexico 1
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Gallup Region (N.M.) -- History 1
Gallup Region (N.M.) -- Social life and customs 1
Gospel music 1
Hispanic Americans -- New Mexico -- Music 1
Hispanic Americans -- Southwest, New -- Music 1
Holy Week music 1
Hymns (English) 1
Indians of North America -- Music 1
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- Music 1
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Interviews -- Sound recordings 1
Interviews – New Mexico – Gallup Region 1
Landscape photographs 1
Matachines (Dance) 1
Matachines (Music) -- New Mexico 1
Mescalero Indians -- Music 1
Mexican Americans -- New Mexico -- Music 1
Mexican Americans – Southwest, New -- Ethnic identity 1
Minorities -- Political activity -- United States 1
Minorities in art 1
Mural painting and decoration 1
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Ebinger, Virginia Nylander, 1929- 1
Edmister, Grace Thompson, 1890-1984 1
Griffin-Martin, Shirley Ann 1
Higgins, Elliott, 1941-2014 1