La Musica de Los Viejitos: Hispano Folk Music of the Rio Grande del Norte

by Jack , Loeffler, Enrique R. Lamadrid, Katherine Loeffler

Book Overview

This long-awaited book vividly documents the folk music of El Rio Grande del Norte, an area extending from the Mexican border on the south to Southern Colorado on the north and from the Great Plains on the east to the Continental Divide on the West. Loeffler has collected examples of the musical forms used over the centuries in this often isolated and harsh but beautiful region. A blend of religious and secular music from sixteenth-century Spain,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826318843
• ISBN13: 9780826318848
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.5" x 11.0"