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Ruben Cobos, recorder, 1949

 Item — Box: 3, CD: 263

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Manuel Antonio Esquibel, La Joya, NM. El bazar del diablo (cancion, short song about people that shop at the store that belongs to the devil, are condemned, hell, sin, money, temptation).

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Leonardo Casados, Cuba, NM. El borreguero (cancion, short song about about a poor shepherd who cares for lambs, has a good dog, little food).

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Napoleon Trujillo, Cuba, Bernalillo, NM. 1.La mulita (cancion, song about a small female mule, idiom for a woman that is dumb, or stubborn, term of endearment, women); 2. La enfermedad de los frios, malaria (cancion, song about health, medicine, sickness, pain, doctor).

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Mrs. Teresita Gurule, Alameda, NM. Las olas del mar (cancion, slow, sad song called The Waves of the Sea, to embark on journey, good bye, sail, boat, clouds in the sky, despedida).

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Ricardo Archuleta, Cerro,NM. El tecolotito (cancion, song that speaks to small beloved owl, tecolote, where to do you come from, brave one that flies in winter with hunger).

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Manuel Antonio Esquibel, La Joya, NM. 1. La montosa, a cuando, versos de Los Estados (cancion, song, immigration, searching for new territory, land, I dreamed of you last night, to learn English, also called a cuando); 2. Comadre, Que hace de novia? (cancion, song about women, what a novia, girlfriend or fiancée or wife should know how to do, home, love, romance, Durango, Mexico, marriage, comica, humor); 3. En esa Ciudad de Chusca, Corrido de Ribera (cancion, song, the devil appeared in Chucha, Ribera was unafraid, indifferent, girlfriend, horse).

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Celso Gallegos, Santa Barbara, Albuquerque, NM. En una piedra cuadratica (cancion, short, fast, rhyming song about a quadratic rock).

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Mrs. Jose de Leon Padilla, Tome, NM. 1. La disculpada (incomplete, song, the forgiveness, husband, marriage, women); 2. Romance de la esposa fiel (cancion, song about a good, faithful wife, marriage, husband, women); 2. Ojitos afortunados (cancion, song, Lucky Eyes that do not cry, if you do not love me, say so); 3. El atole y el cafe (cancion, song about a drink made of ground corn and coffee, romance, courtship, compatibility, one goes with the other); 4. Cancion de amor (song about love, adoration, passion, emotion, women).

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Braulio Rael, Santa Barbara, Albuquerque, NM. El piojo (song about a louse, lice, also, idiom for a person that is nasty).

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Julian Zamora, b. July 4, 1873, Tome, NM. 1. Cantada de pesqueira (cancion, song about a man that cries like a woman in Pesqueira, city in Mexico) 2. El gato le dice al raton (good recording, cancion, song about what the cat says to the rat, I'll take your life and love, go to your parents and say goodbye, confess your sins, mercilessly, the rat begs for his life, symbols of man and woman in love).

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Ezequiel Candelaria, Santa Barbara, Albuquerque, NM. Indita de Antonio Lerma (song with Native American influences, Antonio dies in the year 1886, misforturne in the Alameda Plaza).

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Abran Sanchez, Las Lagunitas, near Cuba, NM. 1. Indita de Nicolas Aragon (song with Native American influences, year of 1885, in river of chickens, sad day, bad luck, death, muerte, misfortune); 2. Indita de Ruperto Gonzalez (song, with Native American influence, penitence, black heart, prison, takes place in Sandoval County); 3. Corrido de Jose Romero (song, in the mountains, death, muerte, piety, journey); 4. Indita de Ciquio Lucero (song, man pierces his leg with an awl as he is making a pair of shoes, shoemaker, chorus with Native American influences, died in 1884, oh terrible day, death, muerte) .

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Mrs. Nick Montano, Tome, NM. Indita del Indio Victorio (song about Chief Victorio, Apache, Indian leader, Native Americans and Mexicans, liking to fight the government, kill and steal, this land is mine).

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Andres Lujan, b. Torreon, NM, April 9, 1868, age 81. 1. Indita de San Luis (song with Native American influences, give me a miracle because I have promised to dance, asking for a favor); 2. Indita de Manuel B. Otero (song with Native American influences, Otero had lands in Valencia County, and mill in La Constancia, near Belen, Tome, New Mexico, and also owned a ranch in Estancia, where he was killed by an Anglo, Whitney, 1883, who claimed Otero's land and killed him for it, death, injustice, bravery, land struggle, conflict, muerte, death); 3. Indita de Ciquio Lucero (song, with Native American influences, oh terrible day, death, my sad sentence, solitary, far from my parents and my decendants, goodbye land of birth and of apples, goodbye to all. Speaker explains that Lucero died making a pair of shoes, pierced his leg with an aw, shoemaker, muerte); 4. Indita de Costales (a New Mexico song about Martin Costales, looking for corn in the valley, the ditch has dried up, no water, people laughing at him, with Native American influences, Navajo, la la la).

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Carlos M. Gallegos, Santa Barbara, in Albuquerque, NM. Indita de Rumaldo Gallegos (song, with Native American influences, death, muerte).

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Manuel Antonio Esquibel, La Joya, NM. 1. Indita de Manuelito (song lyrics are read, and then sung, Navajo Indian chief, Native American leader, I am the Indian Manual, with the bow and arrow in my hand, regardless if you are French, Christian or American); 2. Indita de Manuel Maes (song, with Native American influences, buffalo hunter, cibolero, great plains, Texas, he died in 1873, tells a story about sitting with others at the river); 3. Indita de El Indio Victorio (cancion, song about an Apache, Indian leader, Native American that died in the year 1880).

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Leocadio Rael, Santa Barbara, Albuquerque, NM. Indita de San Luis Gonzaga (song, very long, with Native American influences, asks the saint for a blessing, because he promised to dance, in the mountains of Nuevo Leon, Saint Louis of my heart, an arch of flowers, Our Lady of Sorrows, Virgin Mary, heaven, crown like that of Saint Andrew).

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Rumaldo Moya, born March 19, 1888, 61 years old, Los Jarales, NM or Rumalda Moya?. Indita de San Luis (song, with Native American influences, the arch of flowers comes down from heaven from Our Lady of Sorrows, Virgin Mary).

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Adolfo Silva, born February, 20, 1877, Valencia, NM. Speaker was a farmer, 72 years old, learned song from Mauricio Silva. 1. Indita de Manuel B. Otero (song, land owner from Valencia County, with Native American influences, not having human rights, denied his land, shootout in Estancia); 2. Indita de Jose Luis (song, Jose Luis Lovato, with Native American influences, he was a famous musician from Valencia County, Tome, death, muerte, burial).

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Manuel Antonio Esquibel, La Joya, NM. 1. Indita de Manuelito (song, with Native American influences, Navajo Indian chief, Native American leader, he was sentenced in la Tierra de la Gallina, he was the brother of Mariano, with the bow and arrow in his hand, it does not matter if you are French, American or Christian, Government of Santa Fe, the killing of a doctor and a captain); 2. Indita de Jose Luis Lovato, Part I (song, death of musician from Valencia County, with Native American influences, first five seconds of song, cont. on CD 264).

Dates

  • Creation: 1949

Language of Materials

From the Collection:

English

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 13 boxes (12.25 cu. ft.)

Repository Details

Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository

Contact:
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131