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Juan Bautista Rael Collection
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In the summer of 1940, when based at Stanford University, the scholar and linguist Juan Bautista Rael embarked on a project to document Hispano culture and music in the Northern Rio Grande region. In particular, he sought to carry out fieldwork with communities in the San Luis Valley (Southern Colorado) and Taos Valley (Northern New Mexico) -- where he had grown up in the town of Arroyo Hondo.
To truly capture the tonada del país, or the 'tune of the region,' he recorded alabados (religious hymns), songs from folk dramas and weddings, and dance tunes in Alamosa, Manassa, and Antonito, Colorado, as well as in Cerro and Arroyo Hondo, across the border in New Mexico.
In total, he made 146 audio recordings on thirty-six acetate discs, adding up to roughly eight hours of wide-ranging music. "Tonada del país" was a phrase Rael had come across in reading earlier, written compilations of Hispano hymns, possibly denoting that they enjoyed "great popularity among the people and were perhaps gathered from them."
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Library of Congress
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1940
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Photogrammar.org
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The 170,000 photographs taken between 1935 and 1944 under the direction of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and the Office of War Information (OWI) constitutes one of the richest photographic archives in the United States, arguably the world. One of the most famous documentary photography collections of the twentieth century, the “Historic Section” created visual evidence of government initiatives alongside scenes of everyday life during the Great Depression and World War II across the United States. Photogrammar provides tools to explore this abundant archive: maps to see photos taken in thousands of locations across the United States, a “treemap” to explore them categorically and thematically, a timeline to concentrate on a given moment in time or a specific photographer, and individual photographer pages with oral histories.
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Photogrammar
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1935 - 1944
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Folk Music of Hispanic New Mexico: The John Donald Robb Collection
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John Donald Robb carefully recorded and transcribed over 3000 Hispano folk songs all over New Mexico and the Southwest between 1945 and 1972, the largest collection of its time. Like romantic and modernist composers before him, he looked to the songs of everyday folk to inspire and inform his own compositions. He also wanted to provide a living record to the musicians and scholars of New Mexico.
This collection contains video, audio, Spanish transcriptions and English translations and sheet music for the songs. Support materials include student handouts and video descriptions of the song forms. You will also find supplemental reading material and the complete documentary film The Musical Adventures of John Donald Robb in New Mexico.
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PBS
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1945 - 1972
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