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| Pila del bautismo |
Wonderful last night--your projects, and the stories you shared (even when difficult). Ideas y sentimientos importantes--una revelación... Gracias a todos! Tony
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READING: Octavio Paz, Conquista y colonia. Las culturas originarias (autoctonas, pre-cortesianas, "indigenas") de mesoamerica. And how they came to accommodate Spanish rule (including the Church). Note what Don Octavio has to say about the "complete world" imposed by Spain. What it provided. And how he counters the chamula texts ("indigenous" renderings of scripture) which in effect show us how los pueblos originarios accomplished this accommodation (p. 117 in the Spanish edition, pps. 106-107 in the translation).
Consider what Paz says about the "abandonment" of the Gods... and why the Virgen de Guadalupe (Tonantzin, the female deity, "la madre del maíz") emerged in their place... How her figure became a meeting point of the two worlds... (You'll need to review la Malinche chapter as well--his discussion of la madre...)
PROJECT: For this week: imagine yourself as of them--one of these peoples, pueblos originarios--in the terms described by Don Octavio. How do you find a place in "this new world?" Look at images of early baptismal fonts in México--how they represent the two worlds...
MUSICA: Continue with José Alfredo and Cuco Sanchez. (Their songs warrant a careful listening.) How do they cast this question in personal terms? (And at a distance of 450 years...) How is this question part of your own world?
And here's a selection of YouTube vidoes. There's a lot, all related to the new theme--so pick and chose which to draw on. We'll lopok at Las Mañanitas (the Pedro Infante film) together in class.
Pedro Infante "Fallaste Corazon" - YouTube Two film versions.
FALLASTE CORAZON CUCO SANCHEZ - YouTube
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ADIÓS MI CHAPARRITA-Alfredo Picazo - YouTube
LA BORRACHITA - Alfredo Picazo - YouTube
Las mañanitas con Pedro Infante. - YouTube (la pila del bautismo, see lyrics below, verse 4)
El Rapto 8 /12 PELICULA - YouTube Jorge Negrete's version, filmed earlier, by way of comparison.
DAVID ZAIZAR INDITA MIA - YouTube Y quien es esta indita?
Ruben Fuentes 78 RPM "La negra" son jalisciense - YouTube The popular composer/arranger Ruben Fuentes working from a traditional son--this an early version of the popularization of la música verdaderamente folklórica. More on this next week.
And some "ethnographic" home videos (I showed parts in class). That is, real places, real-time from today... El pasado hecho presente? O....?
DANZA DE ARRIEROS DE SAN JERÓNIMO ACAZULCO-30 DE SEPT. DE 2010. - YouTube (México alcanza hacia sí mismo...)
danza de arrieros santa cruz ayotuxco.wmv - YouTube (miren al figura central)
Baile de la Contradanza en Arteaga Coahuila - YouTube (México alcanza hacia europa)
"Contradanza", anónimo - YouTube Guitarra. Both of these reflect the French "Intervention" in México in the 1860s--and present two reactions.
Yaqui: Danza del Venado en Sonora, Mexico - YouTube on stage (México alcanza hacia lo indio)
Danza del venado 3. CRóNICA10 - YouTube sitio local THIS ONE BEST.
Danza de Pascola y Venado Mayo. Fiesta de la Santísima Trinidad 48/52 2009 - YouTube
And finally, una cancion que todos conocen--pero quiero que van pensando en la estrofa 4ta:
Las mañanitas (Letra de Las Mananitas Tapatias)
Estas son Las Mananitas
Que cantaba el Rey David
Hoy por ser dia de tu santo
Te las cantamos a ti
Despierta mi bien, despierta
Mira que ya amanecio
Y los pajarillos cantan
La luna ya se metio
Que linda esta la manana
En que vengo a saludarte
Venimos todos con gusto
Y placer a felicitarte
El dia en que tu naciste
Nacieron todas las flores
Y en la plia del bautismo
Cantaron los ruisenores
Ya viene amaneciendo
Ya la luz del dia nos vio
Levantate de manana
Mira que ya amanecio