Folk music and drama of the Spanish colonist in New Mexico : field survey, 1962-1978.

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Folk music and drama of the Spanish colonist in New Mexico : field survey, 1962-1978.

Summary: Collection consists of recordings and texts of Spanish colonial folk music, traditional Hispanic American folk plays, folk dance music, religious hymns (alabados), and pastoral songs. Also included are correspondence between Richard B. Stark, the collector, and other ethnomusicologists; notebooks; typescripts; interviews with narrators; broadsides; and several publications. Some recordings are copies provided by other collectors.

Papers : 4.5 linear feet.Sound tape reels : 173.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7399089

Museum of New Mexico Library

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Robb, J. D. (John Donald), 1892-1989

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Born in Minneapolis, Minn.; died in Albuquerque, N.M. in 1989. Educator, composer of stage, classical and electronic music, collector of folk music, lawyer, and writer. In 1941 became a professor of music and head of the Department of Music at the University of New Mexico; later became Dean of the College of Fine Arts. He was instrumental in the establishment of a folk music archive at the University of New Mexico. From the description of Compositions of J.D. Robb. (University of New...

Museum of International Folk Art (N.M.)

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Since its official opening in 1953, the Museum of International Folk Art, a unit of the Museum of New Mexico, has sought to collect, preserve, interpret, and present material folk culture from all parts of the globe. It has developed notable collections of textiles, costumes, Spanish Colonial art, contemporary Hispanic crafts of the Southwest, and Latin American folk art. From the description of New Mexico Northeast Sector Overview Project survey, 1984- 1985. (Museum of New Mexico Li...

Stark, Richard Boies, 1915-

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Rael, Juan Bautista, 1900-1993

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The Collector Linguist and folklorist Juan Bautista Rael, highly regarded for his pioneering work in collecting and documenting the Hispano folk stories, plays, and religious traditions of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado, was born on August 14, 1900, in Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico. His bachelor's degree, from St. Mary's College in Oakland in 1923, led to a master's degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1927. After dec...