La Constancia, New Mexico. Quality: good/fair. PLEASE NOTE: this should be the FOURTH song on the audiofile.
Albuquerque, New Mexico. Guitar accompaniment. Quality: good. PLEASE NOTE: this should be the THIRD song on the audiofile.
Albuquerque, New Mexico. Cuts off abruptly. Quality: good. PLEASE NOTE: this should be the FOURTH song on the audiofile.
Albuquerque, New Mexico. Quality: good. PLEASE NOTE: this should be the EIGHTH song on the audiofile.
Bernalillo, New Mexico. Informant sings a traditional version of the Entriega de novios, a wedding song concerning the laws of matrimony, with suggestions as to how a married couple should lead a happy Christian life as husband and wife. Duplicates item 33.9. Quality: good/fair.
Bernalillo, New Mexico. Informant sings the "Entriega de San Lorenzo," patron saint of Bernalillo, New Mexico. Duplicates item 33.11. Quality: good/fair.
Bernalillo, New Mexico. Informant sings one of several versions of a ballad on the death of the late John F. Kennedy. Duplicates item 33.10. Quality: good/fair.
Albuquerque, New Mexico. Distortion. Quality: fair. PLEASE NOTE: this should be the ELEVENTH song on the audiofile.
Albuquerque, New Mexico. "Viento, viento" (Wind, Wind) is a children's school song. The children tell the wind that he is a thief that blows and takes their things away with him. Children ask the wind where it is going in such a hurry and call him a thief with baggy pants. Quality: poor. PLEASE NOTE: this should be number 8 of 27 songs on the audiofile.
Albuquerque, New Mexico. Originally the valse de cadena was so-called because the dancers formed a cadena or chain as they danced around the dance floor. Of all the valses, this is one of the most interesting to perform and to watch Recording cut off. Quality: fair. PLEASE NOTE: this should be number 6 of 16 songs on the audiofile.
Chimayo, New Mexico. Seven-year-old informant sings a children's song about an owl foraging for food in a little basket. Quality: good. PLEASE NOTE: this should be number 6 of 14 songs on the audiofile.
Albuquerque, New Mexico. Piece of Mexican origin dating from the days of the Mexican Revolution. Cut off. Quality: good. PLEASE NOTE: this should be number 3 of 27 songs on the audiofile.
Albuquerque, New Mexico. Recording levels vary. Quality: fair/poor. PLEASE NOTE: this should be number 4 of 16 songs on the audiofile.
Albuquerque, New Mexico. Composition strongly influenced by Indian music. Quality: good/fair. PLEASE NOTE: this should be number 1 of 5 songs on the audiofile.
El Guique, New Mexico. Instrumental accompaniment. Fragment. Quality: fair. PLEASE NOTE: this should be number 1 of 12 songs on the audiofile.
Grants, New Mexico. Wedding ceremony in the Catholic church of Grants, New Mexico. Quality: good/fair. PLEASE NOTE: this should be number 1 of 2 pieces on the audiofile.
Albuquerque, New Mexico. Alegrias (Joys) is a Spanish folk dance that has not taken root among the Spanish-speaking people of New Mexico. Recordings of this and some other folk dances are usually played for the music they contain. May be a commercial recording. Recording levels vary. Quality: fair. PLEASE NOTE: this should be number 10 of 16 songs on the audiofile.
Albuquerque, New Mexico. In this folk song, el zapatero (the cobbler) and el camisero (the haberdasher) figure as objects of children's mock anger at not getting their tailor-made apparel as ordered. Quality: poor. PLEASE NOTE: this should be number 10 of 27 songs on the audiofile.
Los Padillos, New Mexico.Fragment. Recited. Listed in index also as Reel #195.B.1,d (item 45.8). Quality: good. PLEASE NOTE: this should be number 13 of 27 songs on the audiofile.
Grants, New Mexico. Mexican folk song from the region around Veracruz. See items 39.2-39.6. Quality: good/fair. PLEASE NOTE: this should be number 2 of 6 songs on the audiofile.
Grants, New Mexico. See item 39.2. Quality: good/fair. PLEASE NOTE: this should be number 4 of 6 songs on the audiofile.
Albuquerque, New Mexico. Quality: good/fair. PLEASE NOTE: this should be number 2 of 5 songs on the audiofile.
Las Vegas, New Mexico. Old Mexican folk song about the village of El Quelite. Recording levels vary. Quality: good/fair. PLEASE NOTE: this should be number 1 of 21 songs on the audiofile.
Rainsville, New Mexico. A decima is a ten-line poem. New Mexican decimas are made up of a set of four ten-line poems, or individual decimas, preceded by a four-line strophe called the planta where the theme of the composition is "planted," or stated. "El borreguero tells about the hardships of being a shepherd. Recited in part. Quality: good/fair. PLEASE NOTE: this should be number 4 of 21 songs on the audiofile.
Rainsville, New Mexico. Love song about a son who benefits from his parents' blessing. Both sung and recited. Quality: good. PLEASE NOTE: this should be number 3 of 21 songs on the audiofile.