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- Creator
- Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
- Views
- 7,599
- Video Title
- Ecos de Borinquen - "Mujer Borinqueña" [Live Performance Video]
- Description
- Traditional Puerto Rican jíbaro music is often improvised, sung poetry. At the core of the traditional song repertoire are the seis (in which the song form is based on six lines) and the aguinaldo (which is based on a decimal, or ten-line stanza). The aguinaldo is well-suited for detailed lyrical narratives of Puerto Rican history and culture and Biblical stories. Here Miquel Santiago-Diaz, founder of Ecos de Borinquen and one-time Puerto Rican national trovador (troubadour, or singer of seis and aguinaldo) demonstrates the aguinaldo style from the town of Orocovis with "Mujer Borinqueña," a song extolling the virtues of a Puerto Rican woman. 'Jíbaro Hasta el Hueso: Mountain Music of Puerto Rico by Ecos de Borinquen' is available on CD and digital. Stream/download/purchase: Smithsonian Folkways: https://folkways.si.edu/ecos-de-borinquen/jibaro-hasta-el-hueso-mountain-music-of-puerto-rico/latin-world/album/smithsonian Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/5qGmbi8xe5kwn5KPo5w5rt?si=kicrHaZORBCYp9lVoI0TYA The resurgence of cultural and racial pride in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s had a parallel in Puerto Rico—so much so that today, the mere sound of música jíbara can provoke a cheer of cultural and national pride. In the forward-looking words of the young singer on this recording, Karol Aurora De Jesús Reyes, the music "Will make us shine around the world, until the people hear the music and say, 'Look, that is the music of Puerto Rico.' It's the music of my country, that which represents us and that which identifies us as a people." Leader Miguel Santiago Díaz hand-picked this group of virtuosic instrumentalists to let the music to shine at its brightest. Smithsonian Folkways: https://folkways.si.edu Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/smithsonianfolkwaysrecordings Twitter: https://twitter.com/Folkways Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/smithsonianfolkways The content and comments posted here are subject to the Smithsonian Institution copyright and privacy policy (www.si.edu/copyright). Smithsonian reserves the right in its sole discretion to remove any content at any time.
- Video Duration
- 2 min
- YouTube Keywords
- music folk "Woody Guthrie" "Pete Seeger" Smithsonian Folkways old-time non-profit
- Uploaded
- 2010-04-22T15:43:48.000Z
- Type
- YouTube Videos
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- smithsonianfolkways
- Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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- smithsonianfolkways
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- Music
- Topic
- Cultural property
- Record ID
- yt_wus8KdOogdA
