Donald L. Roberts Collection of Music of the Southwest and Mexico 1964-1968

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Donald L. Roberts Collection of Music of the Southwest and Mexico 1964-1968

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The collection contains recordings of Navajo, Hopi and Pueblo songs, as well as a few Apache, Ute, and Kiowa songs. A major part deals with the history and use of sand paintings, native medicine and star beliefs. There are also Matachines dances, a Los Pastores program and a concert of songs performed by the University of Chihuahua Folkloric group. The collection includes detailed explanations of the selections.

10 cds (15 hrs.)

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spa,

The University of New Mexico, University Libraries, Center for SouthwestResearch

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Roberts, Donald Llewellyn

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Donald L. Roberts was born in 1938 and grew up in Dodge City, Kansas. He attended the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, and received a degree in music theory in Kansas. He graduated with a Masters in Ethnomusicology in 1963 from the University of Michigan. Roberts worked at the University of New Mexico, Fine Arts Library, 1963-1968. In 1964, he helped establish the Archives of Southwestern Music at the Fine Arts Library. Roberts was active in many library and mu...

Nez, John.

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John Donald Robb Archive of Southwestern Music

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