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ISBN: 9781632931818
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Languages : en
Pages : 224
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In 1933, newly elected President Franklin Delano Roosevelt summoned ideas that might allay the financial calamity that characterized the Great Depression of the 1930s. Among the myriad programs Roosevelt initiated was the WPA, the Works Progress Administration (later re-named the Work Projects Administration) that was created to provide meaningful work to the unemployed millions throughout America. Thanks to New Mexico Governor Clyde Tingley, a masterful politician who wended his way into Roosevelt's good graces, New Mexico became the recipient of a significant proportion of federal WPA funding that supported thousands of otherwise unemployed men and women. One of the great programs to emerge was in support of the arts, and many painters, writers and musicians were employed to pursue their respective art forms. Helen Chandler Ryan was appointed director of the Federal Music Project (FMP) in New Mexico that lasted from 1936 to 1943. In 1939, it was re-named the New Mexico Music Project, and by 1942, the name was changed yet again to War Services Program--Music Phase. The focus of this project was "music education, performance, and preserving of local musical heritage, especially Hispanic [Hispano] folk music." Under Ryan's direction and that of her co-administrators, musicians and folklorists collected songs and other material that otherwise might have been lost. The transcribed folk songs were mimeographed and distributed to teachers who taught both singers and instrumentalists who then presented the music in public performances. This music project not only funded fieldworkers, it also brought music to the people of the villages of New Mexico in a time when little else was available to lift the hearts of la gente. In this book, materials collected between 1936 and 1941 are assembled in five separate units. Units 1, 2, and 3 are comprised of a series of Hispano folk songs with transcribed melodies and English translations of lyrics. Unit 4 is a collection of thirty Hispano dance songs, some of which remain popular even now. Unit 5 is entitled "Guitar Arrangements of Spanish American Folk Songs." We are fortunate to have this taste of Hispano music of New Mexico from the early twentieth century now available to all. It is integral and vital to the repertoire of musical lore that greatly enhances New Mexico's heritage.
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Publisher: Fodor
ISBN: 1400005302
Category : New Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Describes New Mexico and recommends hotels and restaurants, and offers advice on tours, festivals, nightlife, outdoor activities, and entertainment.
Author: Craig Smith
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826342263
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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"This lady is a big breath of hope in a cynical age."--from the Introduction by John Nichols
Author: Peter Gough
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252097017
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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At its peak the Federal Music Project (FMP) employed nearly 16,000 people who reached millions of Americans through performances, composing, teaching, and folksong collection and transcription. In Sounds of the New Deal, Peter Gough explores how the FMP's activities in the West shaped a new national appreciation for the diversity of American musical expression. From the onset, administrators and artists debated whether to represent highbrow, popular, or folk music in FMP activities. Though the administration privileged using "good" music to educate the public, in the West local preferences regularly trumped national priorities and allowed diverse vernacular musics to be heard. African American and Hispanic music found unprecedented popularity while the cultural mosaic illuminated by American folksong exemplified the spirit of the Popular Front movement. These new musical expressions combined the radical sensibilities of an invigorated Left with nationalistic impulses. At the same time, they blended traditional patriotic themes with an awareness of the country's varied ethnic musical heritage and vast--but endangered--store of grassroots music.
Author: Pablo Palomino
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190687436
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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The ethnically and geographically heterogeneous countries that comprise Latin America have each produced music in unique styles and genres - but how and why have these disparate musical streams come to fall under the single category of "Latin American music"? Reconstructing how this category came to be, author Pablo Palomino tells the dynamic history of the modernization of musical practices in Latin America. He focuses on the intellectual, commercial, musicological, and diplomatic actors that spurred these changes in the region between the 1920s and the 1960s, offering a transnational story based on primary sources from countries in and outside of Latin America. The Invention of Latin American Music portrays music as the field where, for the first time, the cultural idea of Latin America disseminated through and beyond the region, connecting the culture and music of the region to the wider, global culture, promoting the now-established notion of Latin America as a single musical market. Palomino explores multiple interconnected narratives throughout, pairing popular and specialist traveling musicians, commercial investments and repertoires, unionization and musicology, and music pedagogy and Pan American diplomacy. Uncovering remarkable transnational networks far from a Western cultural center, The Invention of Latin American Music firmly asserts that the democratic legitimacy and massive reach of Latin American identity and modernization explain the spread and success of Latin American music.
Author: Eric B. Wechter
Publisher: Fodors Travel Publications
ISBN: 1400008115
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Describes New Mexico and the Santa Fe, Taos, and Albuquerque areas, recommends hotels and restaurants, and offers advice on tours, festivals, nightlife, outdoor activities, and entertainment
Author: Spanish Colonial Arts Society
Publisher:
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Category : Decorative arts
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Author: La Salle University Art Museum
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0988999927
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Author: Fodor's
Publisher: Fodor
ISBN: 0307480550
Category : Albuquerque
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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A travel guide to Santa Fe, Taos, and Albuquerque, New Mexico, that provides information on the cities' restaurants, hotels, landmarks, activities, and popular attractions.
Author: Charles Haywood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 784
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Book Description
Unabridged and corrected republication of the work first published by Greenberg Publisher in 1951.
