Leading a Mexican folk music revival was the furthest thing from Eugene Rodriguez's mind while growing up in a white middle class suburb of Los Angeles. The third generation Mexican-American earned a ...
Tiburcio Ulibarri on violin and is brother Dionisio Ulibarri on guitar, New Mexico, early 20th century (courtesy Rob Martínez) “In these rituals, these songs, these stories and dances, there is a ...
Editor’s note: Every year, hundreds of undergraduates at the University of Delaware pursue research under the guidance of a faculty mentor. Such experiences provided by UD — a nationally recognized ...
Hispanic-American folk music — which includes dance music — has been one of the richest veins of musical treasure in the New World. Think of dance forms alone — the habanera, tango, salsa, merengue, ...
When New Mexican folklorist and musician Cipriano Vigil died this week, he left behind an immense trove of music history: binders of music, recordings of his own music as well as that of other folk ...