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Christmas plays, Spanish - New Mexico

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

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

Ruben Cobos Collection of Southwestern Folklore and Folk Music

 Collection
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