Product Description: First published in 1980 and now available only from the University of New Mexico Press, this classic compilation of New Mexico folk music is based on thirty-five years of field research by a giant of modern music. Composer John Donald Robb, a passionate aficionado of the traditions of his adopted state, traveled New Mexico recording and transcribing music from the time he arrived in the Southwest in 1941...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: La Acequia del Rito y la Sierra in the Mora Valley is the highest and most famous traditional irrigation system in New Mexico. It carries water up and over a mountain ridge and across a sub-continental divide, from the tributaries of the Río Grande to the immense watershed of the Mora, Canadian, Arkansas, and Mississippi Rivers...read more

Product Description: Recent health scares such as H1N1 influenza have exposed children to frightening information that can be difficult to process. This thoughtful bilingual book helps them understand the abstract concept of largescale sickness and appreciate the role children play in the health of their community...read more

Product Description: One of the great festival traditions shared by Pueblo and Hispano across New Mexico is the celebration Los Comanches. In this series of winter festivals, communities come alive with colorful processions, boisterous ceremonial dance, allegorical nativity plays, and a folk drama on horseback which portrays the 1779 defeat of famed war chief Cuerno Verde...read more

Product Description: Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. At last Cecilio GarcAAa-Camarillo has consented to the publication of this volume spanning three decades of creation, from the 1970s through the 1990s. The Line, GarcAAa-Camarillo's longest single work, is reproduced in its entirety...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book documents in black-and-white photos the most popular religious and spiritual pilgrimage in the United States--the annual Easter week walk to the Santuario de Chimayó in northern New Mexico. Together with moving testimonials (provided in Spanish and English) the images make for a beautiful and poignant book...read more

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