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| Arrieros, foto Agustín Casasola, ca. 1900 |
"Arrieros somos, y en el camino andamos..."
Escuchar a la cancion--by Cuco Sánchez, and the versions by Chavela Vargas and La Prieta Linda con los Hnos.Zaízar.
Cuco Sánchez (in Cancionero download)
https://berkeley.box.com/s/qgdpdcgfw20h08j06hsmg2mfppfmm0of
Chavela Vargas (in Cancionero download)
https://berkeley.box.com/s/3rwbslpqlrbmoxvc3amk8zilph7oayxe
La Prieta Linda y los Hnos. Zaízar (this version you can find on YouTube, posted by SolitarioDark)
What was the song for Cuco Sánchez? For anyone from México? And for you today?
Make a close reading of the lyrics and base your project on this.
WE WILL DISCUSS THE LYRICS IN CLASS AS WELL...
CANCIONERO RECORDINGS: The separate versions by Cuco Sáchez and Chavela Vargas are in the Cancionero download. I'll give that to you here--this download contains recordings to all the songs in your Cancionero song booklet. These will be important for the rest of the semester--and beyond. Put them into your iTunes with xml file for track info metadata and make a playlist--listen and learn.
Cancionero Mexicano I
https://berkeley.box.com/s/asi7kovmtbcb0e97kq0c
(Note: For convenience, all downloads for the course are posted in DOWNLOADS folder in column to the right.)
LETRA. Lyrics to Arrieros Somos are in your Cancionero
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| Diego Rivera, La Era, 1904 |
Key terms:
Arrieros. Social history and geography. Images? How did this become cultural history? And how did the cultural history (with all its implications) find transformation in the song by Cuco Sánchez?
Agustín Casasola (1874-1928). See his photographs. Many of famous ones you'll know and recognize come from Casasola. (La Adelita, for example.)
Also take a look at SolitarioDark (his remarkable website presenting las canciones mexicanas--and why he maintains it. What makes the versions he chooses particularly special?)
Background material:
El arriero y sus refranes en los caminos de México
danza de arrieros santa cruz ayotuxco.wmv - YouTube
A pueblo festival in Santa Cruz de Ayotuxco (about 20 miles west of Ciudad de México)--a commemoration and living reinvention of the Arriero... (México Profunda--ASK!)
Tenango del Valle, La tradicional danza de los arrieros, presente en Atlatlahuca - YouTube
A short documentary-- informative...
And from today: image (symbol) of the Arrieros repurposed in an interesting way. Take a look!
LELO ART (c): ° A R R I E R O S °
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In parallel, listen to a song by Federico Garcia Lorca (the great Spanish poet--look him up)--THIS IS ONE OF THE GREAT SONGS! Lyrics are in your cancionero. Can we thjnk of this as the Spanish version? Where (ultimately) does this song take you? (We're back to Amor y Tristeza)
De los cuatro muleros
Here's a version with Lorca playing the piano: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1FQd76fI3A
The song gained new meaning after Lorca's death 1n 1936 (he was shot by Franco's forces.)
Los Cuatro Muleros Germaine Montero - YouTube
"Los cuatro muleros". Guitarra española. De Federico García Lorca. Por Armando Javier López. - YouTube
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