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Music – New Mexico

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Charlemaud Curtis Collection of Southwestern Music, Interviews and Programs

 Collection
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

James B. Wright Collection of Southwestern Native American and Hispanic Music, Interviews and Literary Programs

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-829-BC
Abstract This broad collection contains traditional Southwestern Native American and Hispanic folk music, and popular music, dances, poetry readings and interviews collected in the 1970s and 1980s. Also included are Spanish medieval music, a Belen Los Pastores presentation, Matachines music from Tortugas, a Corrales history pageant, Anglo American country western songs and fiddle tunes, Laotian songs from Albuquerque, and a lecture by John Donald Robb.
Dates: 1973-1986

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

 Collection
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)