Collection Items

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    Audio Recording
    Nino querido = Dear child Dust jacket notes: Puerto Rican lullaby. Cruz Losada, unaccompanied vocals. Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Oakland, California on April 10, 1939. In Spanish. Forms part of a group of field materials documenting Cruz Losada performing unaccompanied Puerto Rican songs in Spanish on April 10, 1939, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Oakland, California.
    • Contributor: Lozada, Cruz - Cowell, Sidney Robertson
    • Date: 1939-01-01
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    La terruca Inscribed on dust jacket by Sidney Robertson Cowell: "National song of Puerto Rico (composed)." Aurora Calderon, unaccompanied vocals. Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Oakland, California on April 10, 1939. In Spanish. Forms part of a group of field materials documenting Aurora Calderon performing unaccompanied Spanish songs from Puerto Rico on April 10, 1939, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Oakland, California.
    • Contributor: Calderon, Aurora - Cowell, Sidney Robertson - Calderón, Aurora
    • Date: 1939-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Elinor Rodriguez, portrait, photograph Photograph caption: "Born in Oakland of Puerto Riqueno negro parents." Forms part of a group of field materials documenting Elinor Rodriguez performing a Spanish song from Puerto Rico on April 10, 1939, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Oakland, California.
    • Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
    • Date: 1939-01-01
  • Audio Recording
    Arroz con leche = Rice pudding Dust jacket notes: Puerto Rican dance song. Cruz Losada, unaccompanied vocals. Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Oakland, California on April 10, 1939. In Spanish. Forms part of a group of field materials documenting Cruz Losada performing unaccompanied Puerto Rican songs in Spanish on April 10, 1939, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Oakland, California.
    • Contributor: Lozada, Cruz - Cowell, Sidney Robertson
    • Date: 1939-01-01
  • Audio Recording
    Bolero sentimental Inscribed on dust jacket by Sidney Robertson Cowell: "Composed about depression among country people in Puerto Rico." Yellow song check-list notes: "Bad spot after 2 or 3 verses." Elinor Rodriguez, unaccompanied vocals. Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Oakland, California on April 10, 1939. In Spanish. Forms part of a group of field materials documenting Elinor Rodriguez performing an unaccompanied Puerto Rican song in…
    • Contributor: Rodriguez, Eleanor - Cowell, Sidney Robertson - Rodriguez, Elinor
    • Date: 1939-01-01
  • Audio Recording
    San Sererin Dust jacket notes: Puerto Rican children's game. Aurora Calderon, unaccompanied vocals. Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Oakland, California on April 10, 1939. In Spanish. Forms part of group of field materials documenting Aurora Calderon performing unaccompanied Spanish songs from Puerto Rico on April 10, 1939, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Oakland, California.
    • Contributor: Calderon, Aurora - Cowell, Sidney Robertson - Calderón, Aurora
    • Date: 1939-01-01
  • Audio Recording
    Dona Anna = Lady Anna Dust jacket notes: Puerto Rican children's game. Cruz Losada, unaccompanied vocals. Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Oakland, California on April 10, 1939. In Spanish. Forms part of a group of field materials documenting Cruz Losada performing unaccompanied Puerto Rican songs in Spanish on April 10, 1939, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Oakland, California.
    • Contributor: Lozada, Cruz - Cowell, Sidney Robertson
    • Date: 1939-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Cruz Losada, portrait, photograph Forms part of a group of field materials documenting Cruz Losada performing Spanish songs from Puerto Rico on April 10, 1939, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Oakland, California.
    • Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
    • Date: 1939-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Aurora Calderon, portrait, photograph Forms part of a group of field materials documenting Aurora Calderon performing unaccompanied Spanish songs from Puerto Rico on April 10, 1939, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Oakland, California.
    • Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
    • Date: 1939-01-01
  • Audio Recording
    Si me dan pasteles an aguinaldo = If you give me pasteles . . . Dust jacket notes: AFS 3866 A3 repeats AFS 3866 A2. Inscribed on dust jacket by Sidney Robertson Cowell: "Aguinaldo, a Christmas song from Viequies, P.R. [Vieques Island, Puerto Rico]." Letter from performer dated November 27, 1995: "Pasteles are made of green bananas and other vegetables and stewed pork. They are then wrapped in banana leaves and steamed." Aurora Calderon, unaccompanied vocals. Recorded by Sidney…
    • Contributor: Calderon, Aurora - Cowell, Sidney Robertson - Calderón, Aurora
    • Date: 1939-01-01
  • Audio Recording
    Ah mi madre querida = Ah, Mother dear Cruz Losada, unaccompanied vocals. Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Oakland, California on April 10, 1939. In Spanish. Forms part of a group of field materials documenting Cruz Losada performing unaccompanied Puerto Rican songs in Spanish on April 10, 1939, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Oakland, California.
    • Contributor: Lozada, Cruz - Cowell, Sidney Robertson
    • Date: 1939-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Aurora Calderon, Elinor Rodriguez, and Cruz Losada, group portrait, photograph Left to right: Aurora Calderon, Elinor Rodriguez, and Cruz Losada. Forms part of a group of field materials documenting Aurora Calderon performing unaccompanied Spanish songs from Puerto Rico on April 10, 1939, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Oakland, California.
    • Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
    • Date: 1939-01-01
  • Audio Recording
    La pajaro pinta = The Gay bird Dust jacket notes: Dance song. Cruz Losada, unaccompanied vocals. Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Oakland, California on April 10, 1939. In Spanish. Forms part of a group of field materials documenting Cruz Losada performing unaccompanied Puerto Rican songs in Spanish on April 10, 1939, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Oakland, California.
    • Contributor: Lozada, Cruz - Cowell, Sidney Robertson
    • Date: 1939-01-01
  • Audio Recording
    Venid pastores = Come, shepherds Dust jacket notes: Christmas song. Aurora Calderon, unaccompanied vocals. Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Oakland, California on April 10, 1939. In Spanish. Forms part of a group of field materials documenting Aurora Calderon performing unaccompanied Spanish songs from Puerto Rico on April 10, 1939, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Oakland, California.
    • Contributor: Calderon, Aurora - Cowell, Sidney Robertson - Calderón, Aurora
    • Date: 1939-01-01
  • Audio Recording
    La madre querida = Mother dear Inscribed on dust jacket by Sidney Robertson Cowell: "Refrain exactly like a New York song of the early 1900's. Sung by Mrs. Cruz Losada. Learned by her about 20 years ago, when she was a child in school." Cruz Losada, unaccompanied vocals. Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Oakland, California on April 10, 1939. In Spanish. Forms part of a group of field materials…
    • Contributor: Lozada, Cruz - Cowell, Sidney Robertson
    • Date: 1939-01-01
  • Audio Recording
    La estrella del Oriente = Star of the East Inscribed on dust jacket by Sidney Robertson Cowell: "An Aguinaldo or Christmas carol. Dance section alternating with narrative, slower section." Cruz Losada, unaccompanied vocals. Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Oakland, California on April 10, 1939. In Spanish. Forms part of a group of field materials documenting Cruz Losada performing unaccompanied Puerto Rican songs in Spanish on April 10, 1939, collected by Sidney Robertson…
    • Contributor: Lozada, Cruz - Cowell, Sidney Robertson
    • Date: 1939-01-01
  • Audio Recording
    Las ovejitas = The Little sheep Inscribed on dust jacket by Sidney Robertson Cowell: "A song from the mountains of the Asturias in Spain, at El Puerto de Pajares." Maria Garcia, unaccompanied vocals. Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Monterey, California on January 18, 1939. In Spanish. Forms part of a group of field materials documenting Maria Garcia performing unaccompanied Spanish songs from Asturias, Spain on January 18 and 19,…
    • Contributor: Garcia, Maria - Cowell, Sidney Robertson
    • Date: 1939-01-01
  • Audio Recording
    Gidaldilla
    Giraldilla     Inscribed on dust jacket by Sidney Robertson Cowell: "1st 2 lines of 1st verse lost." Inscribed on dust jacket by Sidney Robertson Cowell: "A dance song from the Asturias [Spain] as sung in the town called Puerto del Pajares. Sung by one or two in the big circle -- all turn and join hands again, the whole circle joining in the song." Maria Garcia,…
    • Contributor: Garcia, Maria - Cowell, Sidney Robertson
    • Date: 1939-01-01
  • Article
    WPA California Ethnic, Cultural, and Language Groups Anglo Anglo-American performers in Alameda, Belvedere, Brentwood, Camino, Carmel, Central Valley, Columbia, Concord, Groveland, Hollywood, Lotus, Oakland, Pine Grove, Tuolumne County, San Jose, and Turlock singing English language songs and performing dance music, fiddle tunes, shanties, ragtime, Barbary Coast tunes, music from the Gold Rush era, immigrant songs, American popular song, and medicine and minstrel show tunes on the guitar, tenor banjo, dulcimer, harmonica,…
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    The Recording of Folk Music in California. An article Sidney Robertson Cowell published in "California Folklore Quarterly," vol. 1, no. 1, January 1942, pp. 7 - 23.
    • Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
    • Date: 1942-01-01

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  • Article
    The Ethnographic Experience: Sidney Robertson Cowell in Northern California From 1938 to 1940, while in her thirties, Sidney Robertson, ethnographer and collector of traditional American music, single-handedly organized and directed a California Work Projects Administration project designed to survey musical traditions in Northern California. The result of the project was a remarkable, and quite modern, multi-format ethnographic field collection--the WPA California Folk Music Project. Not only did the project generate a wealth of…
    • Date: 1903
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    The Recording of Folk Music in California. Notes and outline prepared by Sidney Robertson Cowell on "Folksong in California," that was never published.
    • Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
    • Date: 1954-01-01

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