T.M. Scruggs
Associate Professor
Ethnomusicology
Phone: (319) 335-1617
Office: 1031 VMB
tm-scruggs@uiowa.edu

 

Musical examples to accompany the article:

(Re)Indigenization?: Post-Vatican II Catholic Ritual and “Folk Masses” in Nicaragua. world of music 47(1): 91-124 (2005).

  1. (refer to p. 102)
    “Señor, ten piedad” (“Lord, Have Mercy”), the Kyrie section of the Misa popular nicargüense. Grupo 14 de septiembre (recorded in Managua, 2001.)

    2. [click to listen]

  2. (refer to p. 102)
    “Dos palomitas blancas” (“Two While Doves”)
    This is the song from the turn of the 20th century on which the previous example is based.

    3. [click to listen]

  3. (refer to p. 108)
    “Canto de despedida.” From the original studio recordings of the Misa campesina nicaragüense(Managua, 1979).
    Note both the lack of a buzzing sound, and the sustaining of the melodic thirds, accomplished by the very non-Nicaraguan marimba de arco style of rolling the wrists.

    4. [click to listen]

  4. (refer to p. 109)
    “La Danza negra”
    Trio de marimba de arco de Marcos Martínez P. (Masaya, 2001.)
    Note the marimba de arco’s high level of buzzing sound. The prefered timbre of the Nicaraguan marimba de arco requires one of the highest level of buzzing sound in the Americas and Africa. Note also the sustaining of notes at ends of several phrases, accomplished in the approved Nicaraguan style of bouncing the mallets off the keys, a technique known as “charleo.” This particular piece is exceptional in that it is the only one in the repertoire that utilizes a minor key, but its phraseology particularly reccomends it as a clear example of “charleo.”

    5. [click to listen]

  5. (refer to p.110)
    “Gloria”
    Taller de Sonido Popular, featuring the Grupo de chicheros de Diriá. From the original studio recordings of the Misa campesina nicaragüense(Managua, 1979). This song is based on the general style of bandas de chicheros, one of the most famous of who are integrated into the recording.

    6. [click to listen]

  6. (refer to p. 111)
    “Mama Chilindrá”
    Banda de chicheros de Orfilio Ramírez (recorded live during an outdoor celebration in Masaya, 1986).
    Note the sound of cohetes, hand-held rockets that explode in the sky, the same ones referenced by Carlos Mejía Godoy in the lyrics of the Gloria.
    [click to listen]

Selections #2, #4 and #6 recorded by T.M. Scruggs.

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