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Audio Recording Interview with Joe Cordova and Alisandra Cordova about life in Mosquero Canyon, Mosquero, New Mexico, part 2

Interview with Joe Cordova and Alisandra Cordova about life in Mosquero Canyon, Mosquero, New Mexico, part 2

About this Item

Title

  • Interview with Joe Cordova and Alisandra Cordova about life in Mosquero Canyon, Mosquero, New Mexico, part 2

Names

  • Fleischhauer, Carl (Recordist)
  • Kalb, Laurie Beth (Research team member)
  • Pratt, Boyd C. (Research team member)
  • Cordova, Joe (Interviewee)
  • Cordova, Alisandra (Interviewee)

Created / Published

  • Mosquero, New Mexico, August 29, 1985

Headings

  • -  Folklore--New Mexico
  • -  Field recordings
  • -  Interviews
  • -  Sound recording
  • -  United States -- New Mexico -- Mosquero

Genre

  • Field recordings
  • Interviews
  • Sound recording

Notes

  • -  Index data: Part 2 of a 3-part interview with Joe Cordova and Alisandra Cordova, Mosquero NM: Joe Cordova describes the work of caring for 20 or 25 sheep and about 80 cows on 3,100 acres in Mosquero Canyon, about livestock brands he used; about the former church in the canyon with monthly services and the former school, with two teachers and 60 students up through ninth grade; about dance parties formerly held in the canyon, with violin and guitar to provide the music for waltzes, two-steps, square dancing, and so on; Alisandra Cordova talks about the moves she made when they were married and when Joe, in the service, was sent to Japan; Alisandra lived in their jacal; she covered it with mud and roasted rock to create the white paint that was applied with pieces of lamb's wool; about how she papered the ceiling with pages from catalogs applied with flour-and-water paste; both Joe and Alisandra Cordova identify stores and businesses that were in the town, people came up from the canyon to buy groceries, to collect mail, while clothes were mostly ordered from catalogs, when the railroad came into the area, a community called Ragtown was built nearby but that settlement no longer exists, many Oklahomans arrived via train; Joe Cordova recounts his childhood memories of dust storms in 1933-34.

Medium

  • audiotape reel, 7 in.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • MBRS Shelflist: RXA 7245
  • Field project identifier: NM-85-LK-R4
  • Call number: AFC 1991/032: SR04

Source Collection

  • New Mexico Folklife Project collection (AFC 1991/032)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • audio

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Credit line: New Mexico Folklife Project collection (AFC 1991/032), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Fleischhauer, Carl, Laurie Beth Kalb, Boyd C Pratt, Joe Cordova, and Alisandra Cordova. Interview with Joe Cordova and Alisandra Cordova about life in Mosquero Canyon, Mosquero, New Mexico, part 2. Mosquero, New Mexico, 1985. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991032_sr04/.

APA citation style:

Fleischhauer, C., Kalb, L. B., Pratt, B. C., Cordova, J. & Cordova, A. (1985) Interview with Joe Cordova and Alisandra Cordova about life in Mosquero Canyon, Mosquero, New Mexico, part 2. Mosquero, New Mexico. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991032_sr04/.

MLA citation style:

Fleischhauer, Carl, et al. Interview with Joe Cordova and Alisandra Cordova about life in Mosquero Canyon, Mosquero, New Mexico, part 2. Mosquero, New Mexico, 1985. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1991032_sr04/>.