New Mexican Folk Music/Cancionero del Folklor Nuevomexicano: Treasures of a People/El Tesoro del Pueblo

by Cipriano Frederico Vigil, David García (Editor), Enrique R. Lamadrid (Foreword by)

Overview

Cipriano Frederico Vigil is the most important performer of traditional Nuevomexicano folk music in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This bilingual panoramic book presents the songs that are his life's work, spanning half a century of listening, playing, composing, and singing ritual, social, and dance music.

New Mexican Folk Music includes much traditional material that has never been seen before or studied by scholars or students. Renowned as a composer, Vigil works in traditional genres such as the romance, the décima, the cuando, and corrido. Like the Mexican group Los Folkloristas with which he apprenticed in the late 1970s, his goal has been to research and master local styles, to introduce new listeners to traditional music, and to build on tradition by creating new compositions that address contemporary social themes.

An audio CD accompanies this comprehensive study on the work and music of Cipriano Frederico Vigil.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826349378
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	03/01/2014
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 10.20(h) x 2.20(d)

About the Author

Cipriano Frederico Vigil has been recognized by the New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities and the Smithsonian Institution. He received the New Mexico Governor's Award in 1994. Vigil taught for many years at Northern New Mexico Community College.

Table of Contents

Prefacio / Foreword Enrique R. Lamadrid vii

Prólogo / Prologue xiii

Reconocimientos / Acknowledgments xxi

1 Música ritual y traditional del norte de Nuevo México / Ritual and Traditional Music from Northern New Mexico 1

2 Los romances / Romance Ballads 59

3 La décima / The Décima 73

4 Los ¿cuándos? / The ¿Cuándos? (When?) 83

5 El trovo / The Trovo, or the Dueling Song 95

6 Las inditas / Little Indian Songs 109

7 El corrido / The Corrido Ballad 117

8 La canción / The Lyric Song 141

9 La relation / The Relation 169

10 Las valonas, o "canciones cochinas" / Valonas, or "Dirty Songs" 181

11 Las vivas, o coplas / Vivas, or Satirical Couplets 193

12 Bailes sociales y tradidonales / Traditional Social Dances 203

13 Tradiciones y costumbres dramáticas / Dramatic Traditions and Customs 229

14 La Nueva Canción nuevomexicana / The New Mexican New Song 241

En conclusión / In Conclusion 253