Visual Studies 185X Songs & Places: México

S&P México / Canciones--Lista amplia

CANCIONES MEXICANAS (rev Jan 2013 draft).
This is a working list compiled before the start of the semester. It became the basis for our Cancionero (separate entry)--the songs learned together over the course of the term.

El último trago (José Alfredo, c. Chavela Vargas) C/2
Arrieros somos (Cuco Sánchez) E/3
Albur de amor (Alfonso Esparza Oteo, c. Chavela Vargas) E/2
Cartas marcadas (Chucho Monge, c. Chavela Vargas) E/2
Cruz de olvido (Juan Zaízar, c. Chavela Vargas) C/2
Ella (José Alfredo, c. Chavela Vargas) G/3 o G/4

Farolito (Agustin Lara) G/2

Sin tí (Chucho Navarro, c. Trío Los Panchos) C/2
Perdida (Chucho Navarro, c. Trío Los Panchos) C/1

Ojos tristes (Guty Cárdenas) E/m / 2
Nunca (Guty Cárdenas) Am

Ojalá que te vaya bonito (José Alfredo, c. Chavela Vargas) E/1
Volver, volver (F. Maldonado, c. Chavela Vargas) E/1
Cucurrucucú paloma (Tomás Méndez/ Hupango canción) C

El venadito (tradicionál) C
La feria de las flores (Chucho Monge, c. Gloria y Ricardo)
Juan Charrasqueado (V. Corder, c. Chavela Vargas) C/2

Cama de piedra (Cuco Sánchez)
Fallaste corazón (Cuco Sánchez)

La borrachita (Tata Nacho) A/1

Adiós mi chaparrita (Tata Nacho) C/2?

De los cuatro muleros (España/García Lorca)

Film:
Fui queriendo nomás (Jorge Negrete/Antonio Bribiesca film)
Amorcito corazón (Jorge Negrete, Nosotros los pobres 1949)
La tequilera (v. Lucha Reyes, film)

Los Tres Huastecos (Pedro Infante, cura tocando violín)

La barca de Guaymas (Pedro Infante, tren)

Jorge Negrete y José Alfredo (El hijo del pueblo)

Pedro Infante y Piporro, Cartas a Eufemia

Tizoc (Pedro Infante)

Fallaste corazon (Pedro Infante, y version de Cuco Sánchez)

Jorge Negrete, México lindo y querido

Ernesto Cortázar / Miguel Esperón)

Ansiedad (Pedro Infante y Libertad Lamarque)

Los Pancho-Perdida, Sin tí

Cantinflas, El señor doctor, Bailando Yolanda

Chavela Vargas videos, Lola Beltrán videos

Sufriendo a solas (v. Lola Beltran, video)

Jorge Negrete, Lucha Reyes, Pedro Infante, María Félix

Andy Russell, Enamorado (odd song footage)

Canciones clásicas:

Marchita el alma (Zuñiga)

La golondrina (Serradel)

Perjura (Lerdo de Tejeda)

Canción de despedida, etc.

La paloma (habanera 1era)

Miguel M. Ponce:

Estrellita

Rayando el sol (arr.)

A la orilla de un palmar

Mañanitas mexicanas

Cielito lindo (arr.)

La pajarera
La Valentina

La borrachita, Ignacio Fernández Esperón (Tata Nacho)

Adiós mi chaparrita (Tata Nacho)

Canción Mixteca (López Álvarez)

Adiós mi mariquita linda (Marcos A. Jiménez)

Mi viejo amor (Alfonso Esparza Oteo)

La barca de guaymas (arr. Rubén Fuentes)

Indita mía (David Zaízar)

El desterrado (canta Davíd Zaizar

El preso de San Juan de Ulua (cantan Hermanos Zaízar)

Corridos (very incomplete):

La Adelita

La Valentina

El mosquito americano

La tragedia de Belén

El Venadito

La tumba de Villa

Carabina 30-30

Los dos hermanos (c. Chavela Vargas)

Sábado en D.F. (Chava Flores), Voy en el metro (Chava Flores)

Trovas Yucatecas:
Peregrina (Ricardo Palmerín / Luís Rosada Vega)
Flor (Guty Cárdenas)
Beso asesino (Pepe Domínguez)
Nunca (Guty Cárdenas)
Ojos Tristes (Guty Cárdenas)

Chilenas (Guerrero):
El camino a Chilpancingo (Agustín Ramírez, c. Dueto Caleta) chilenas, gustos, sones

La Sandunga (Oaxaca/Istmeña, c. Chavela Vargas)

José Alfredo Jiménez:
Amanecí en tus brazos (José Alfredo)
El rey
Ella
La media vuelta
Cuando vivas conmigo
Que te vaya bonito
Te solté la rienda
Tu recuerdo y yo
Cuatro caminos
El jinete
Porqué volviste (?)

Yo

Cuco Sánchez

Cama de piedra (arr.)
Fallaste corazón
Arrieros somos

Anillo de compromiso

Agustín Lara:
Farolito
Imposible
Mujer
María bonita
Piensa en mí

Trios: Los Panchos y otros (boleros) videos

Sin tí

Perdida

Piel canela, Sabor a mí, Frenesí, otros boleros
Angelitos negros (canta Chavela Vargas)

Las “Hermanas”

Las Hermanas Águila

Las Hermanas Huerta (Atotonilco)

Las Hermanas Padilla

Las Jilguerillas

Música regional:

Huapangos (Son Huasteca)

Son jarocho

Jarabes (sones jalisciences))

Jaranas (Yucatan)

Michoacan Orquestras típicas, sones, valonas jarabes

Oaxaca (Cancioneros típicos)

Mariachi, Norteño

Rancheras (siguiente)

Rancheras (in progress)

¡Ay, Jalisco no te rajes! (Esperón/Cortazar) film--Jorge Negrete

México lindo y querido (Chucho Monge) film—Jorge Negrete

La tequilera (canta Lucha Reyes)

Besando la cruz (Chucho Monge)

Cartas marcadas (Chucho Monge)

La feria de las flores (Chucho Monge)

Pa’ que me sirve la vida? (Chucho Monge)

El preso de San Juan de Ulua (canta David Zaízar)

Cucurrucucu paloma (Tomás Mendez), huapango canción

La cama de piedra (Cuco Sánchez)

Fallaste corazón (Cuco Sánchez)

Arrieros somos (Cuco Sánchez)

Si no te vas (Cuco Sánchez)

Echame a mí la culpa (José Ángel Espinosa, Ferrusquilla), bolero ranchero

Sufriendo a solas (José Ángel Espinosa, Ferrusquilla)

Cruz de olvido (Juan Zaízar)
Paloma negra (Tomás Méndez)

Se me olvidó otra vez (Juan Gabriel)

Las rancheras de José Alfredo Jiménez

Juan Charrasqueado (Víctor Cordero), corrido

Carabina 30-30 (canta Miguel Aceves Mejía), corrido

Los dos hermanos (Juan Mendoza García, El Tariácuri), corrido

Viente años (Los Aelgres de Terán)

S&P México: Download LINKS--Complete Set

S&P: México / Bibliography

Octavio Paz (photo by Manuel Álvarez Bravo)

VS 185X S&P: México / Bibliography / Books on Music and Related Topics

PURCHASE THESE TWO BOOKS FOR CLASS: (copies at Ned's Books)

Toor, Frances. A Treasury of Mexican Folkways. New York: Bonanza Books 1985 (orig. 1947)

Paz, Octavio. The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings. New York: Grove Pres, 1985 (orig. 1961). (Read in either English or Spanish. The original is Octavio Paz, El laberinto de la soledad (con vuelta a El laberinto de la soldead). México, D.F.: FCE 2000, 1950 y 1981)

ON RESERVE:

Rivas, Yolanda Moreno. Historia de la música popular mexicana. México, D.F.: Oceano 2008 (orig. 1979)
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As discussed in class:

Mendoza, Vicente T. La Canción Mexicana: Ensayo de clasificación y antología. México, D.F.: FCE 2005 (orig. 1961)
Garrido, Juan S. Historia de la música popular en México. México, D.F.: Contemperaneos 1981

Loza, Steven. Barrio Rhythms: Mexican American Music in Los Angeles. Urbana, Illinois: Univ. of Illinois Press 1993
Normark, Don. Chavez Ravine, 1949: A Los Angeles Story. SF: Chronicle Books 1999. PHOTOGRAPHS
Cull, Nicholas and Davíd Carrasco, ed. Alambrista and the U.S.-Mexico Border. Albuquerque: UNM, 2004
Chew-Sánchez, Martha. Corridos in Migrant Memory. Albuquerque, NM: UNM 2006
Burr, Ramiro. Tejano and Regional Mexican Music. New York: Billboard Books, 1999

Rodriguez, Richard. Brown: The Last Discovery of America. New York: Viking 2002.
Everwine, Peter. Collecting the Animals (see the Aztec poems, his versions)
Cooder, Ry. Los Angeles Stories. SF: City Lights, 2011 (see "La vida es un sueño" and some of the other stories)

Serrano, Álvaro Ochoa, ed. De occidente es el mariache y de méxico. Guadalajara: Colegio de Michoacán 2001
Calleja, Julian. Los mejores corridos mexicanos. México D.F.: El Libro Español 1972
Quintanilla, José Ernesto Infante. Pedro Infante: El Ídolo inmortal. México, D.F.: Oceano, 2006 (questionable)

Good General References on Mexican music:

Bibliography in Yolanda Moreno Rivas: an excellent condensed bibliography; refer to it for additional sources
Juan S.Garrido, Historia de la música popular en México
Vicente T. Mendoza (numerous publications on la música mexicana, including the corrido)
Gerónimo Baqueiro Foster
Daniel Castaneda

S&P: México / Themes

TEMAS

Chavela y Antonio / cancionero mexicano
El último trago, Ojalá que te vaya bonito
Fui queriendo no más (FILM)

La canción méxicana clásica
Marchita el alma, Rayando el sol, La borrachita, Adiós mi chaparrita,
La barca de Guaymas

La trova yucateca: Guty Cárdenas (La canción romántica I)
Ojos Negros
Nunca (El dueto peninsular)

Agustín Lara (La canción romántica II)
Farolito
Imposible

El Trío Los Panchos: Boleros (La canción romántica II)
Sin Tí
Peridida
Ry Cooder story: La Vida Es Un Sueño (in Los Angeles Stories)

Cine mexicana
Jorge Negrete, Pedro Infante, Cantinflas,
María Félix, Libertad Lamarque (!)
México lindo y querido (Jorge Negrete)

Rancheras: Los inmortales y las bravías
La feria de las flores, Cuatro milpas, El preso de San Juan de Ulua
Pedro Infante, David Zaízar
Lola Beltran, Lucha Villa

José Alfredo: El hijo del pueblo
Ojalá qué te vaya bonito, Ella

Chavela Vargas
Volver, volver
Angelitos negros, Un segundo amor Las simples cosas

Cuco Sánchez
La cama de piedra, Fallaste corazón

Las hermanas (Águila, Huerta, Padilla y Las jilguerillas)
Atotonilco, Trés balas, Cuatro milpas, Engañosa y cobarde

La música regional: la zandunga, chilenas, hupangos, jarabes, mariachi, norteño
El venadito
Cucurucucú Paloma (hupango canción)
La sandunga, y sones de provincia (autores anónimos)

Son jarocho, Son huasteco

El corrido y la crónica popular
La Adelita
Juan Charrasqueado
La tumba de Villa

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El norte / East Los Angeles
Lalo Guerreo
Don Tosti
Thee Midnighters
Los Lobos
Newmark photos / Chavez Ravine 1949
Ry Cooder album, also, some his Los Angeles Stories

S&P: México / Outline

VS 185X: SONGS & PLACES: MÉXICO / Sp 2013 / 4 units / Thursdays 6-10pm / Anthony Dubovsky

Un modelo de corazón
Una manera de querer
Cosas de múy adentro
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Some guidelines--
Folder with cancionero / song sheets--bring to every class; there will be in-class handout supplements
Attendance is required (only medical exceptions, or with 3 week notice)
Participation is important
I send you an email each week: read carefully
50-year rule

ONE PROJECT EACH WEEK (based on canciones, letra, and WORD--la voz de la semana?)
Painting, drawing, collage, writing with images...media open...
Pin up at beginning of class, write comments on each other's work (pin up a sheet for this alongside your project--with your name!)

6:00-6:30 Pinup and comments; help get room organized. PLEASE BE ON TIME
6:30-7:00 Canciones y letras
7:00-7:45 Background (music & images) with follow-up email including URLS
7:45 Return to songs
short break
8:15-10:00 Review & discussion of work--a conversation

READING:
Octavio Paz (purchase at Ned's; read one chapter each week)
Frances Toor (purchase at Ned's; use for reference, including her photographs)

Yolanda Moreno Rivas (important for reference; on reserve)
Carlos Monsiváis (article on José Alfredo, will be sent by email)
Ry Cooder, Los Angeles Stories, "La vida es un sueño" (short story, by email)

HOMEWORK:
This is a 4-unit class. I expect two good evenings a week outside of class!
* Exploración (including reading and on-line NOTEBOOK)
* Obra creativa -- your creative PROJECT for each week

Plus a more developed PROJECT of your own choosing on one of our two themes (see course description), with in-class PRESENTATION
* Los abuelitos de tus abuelitos
* Mexican Folkways--Huellas de costumbre (use Frances Toor as a guide for both--her book is encyclopedic, and recognized by Mexicans as such)

ON-LINE NOTEBOOK (use blogger format--blogspot.com). This notebook is a way of sharing and writing about, and picturing, your exploration. It will keep us informed as to what you're doing, what you're thinking. Post your projects here each week as well.

SEND ME BEFORE 2nd CLASS (Jan 31):
1. Blog Notebook URL (active link to your blog homepage, on blogspot.com)
2. Confirm acceptance in class
If I've asked you for examples of your work, and background, send as well, by Jan 26.

Extended Course Outline: http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/courses/offered/sp13/visstd

VS 185X S&P: México / Course Descripion

VS 185X Songs & Places: México

Spring Semester 2013 / 4 units
Thursdays 6-9:30pm / 170 Wurster
Anthony Dubovsky

Listed in Course Schedule as Visual Studies 185X: Special Topics: Word & Image (CCN 04153)

Songs & Places. What are the connections between song and place—visual, musical, and beyond? How can we describe these connections—give them form--through paintings, drawings and related works involving the hand?

Music and place have long been intertwined—and the particulars of place have given rise to some of our most memorable songs. In the fall semester course we explore this question through the American roots song tradition. In this NEW spring semester course we continue the exploration, concentrating now on the folksongs of Mexico (el cancionero mexicano, the classical corrido/ranchera/bolero tradition) including songs recorded by Chavela Vargas, Jorge Negrete, Pedro Infante, Elvira Ríos, Agustín Lara, Guty Cárdenas, La Toña Negra, José Alfredo Jiménez, Davíd Zaizar, Las Jilguerillas, Cuco Sánchez, Lola Beltrán, Dueto Caleta, Los Alegres de Terán, Mono Blanco and more. We'll look closely at (and listen to) this material with an eye to the visual sources for the songs--and the ways in which they stem from--and reflect--Mexican culture. La Canción del Alma y el Alma de la Canción. The lyrics are all in Spanish, of course--and Spanish comprehension will be important for students in the class. A sub-theme will be the ways in which individuals today reflect (represent) this past--especially young people of Mexican ancestry "a este lado de la frontera." A persistent question might be: who were "los abuelitos de tus abuelitos..." and what would it mean to picture them? Place? Region? Family? Home? Caras y caretas...? We'll explore these themes in visual terms (by making paintings and drawings)--and by listening to--and singing--some of the songs... Readings will include Octavio Paz, El Laberinto de la Soldedad, and selections from Yolando Moreno Rivas, amond others. A second sub-theme: how do Mexican folk traditions persisit today? All with a passing look, as time permits--and by way of comparison--at something of the beautiful folclore tradition "del campo de Argentina" (for example, Atahualpa Yupanqui's "Viene Clareando" or Jorge Cafrune's "Zamba de Mi Esperanza"), among others.

Note that this is a seminar-with-projects—a course in which we look closely at the original connection between songs and places—and make images in response. The medium here is open—but the hand is emphasized throughout. We'll begin each week by listening to/looking at a selection of songs and images. Studio projects follow (outside of class). We then reconvene the following week, to sing the songs, look at and discuss the work made by each person in the group. Followed by a new set of songs. Your guide to all this, Anthony Dubovsky is a painter who is also a professor in the Visual Studies Program in the CED. He takes a keen interest in these songs and the places and traditions they represent. The class will be a joint exploration, in Spanish as well as English.

Prerequisites? At least some studio art and music background. A firm grasp of Spanish is required, and genuine interest in the subject. Familiarity with Mexican/Latinoamerican culture(s) a plus. Class size will be limited to 15 students. Open to juniors, seniors, and graduate students with the necessary background.

Application procedures: Send me an email with the following: Your name. Where were you born? Where did you grow up? Your year (junior, senior, grad)? Your Major? Musical background? Art background? Spanish language background? Tell me about your interest in this class, and something of your family story. Include 2-4 jpegs of your artwork (identified with YOUR NAME on each jpeg) and send to Anthony Dubovsky at chambersstreet[at]hotmail.com. Applications due by 15 January 2013; earlier applications will be given stronger consideration.

Painting: Anthony Dubovsky, La Guelaguetza, Oaxaca, 1935, acylic/cardboard, 6-3/4 x 6 inches