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- Luis Díaz G. Viana (ccord.), Palavras para el pueblo, vol. I: Aproximación general de la literatura de cordel; vol. II: La colección de pliegos del CSIC: fondos de la imprenta Hernando, edición a cargo de Araceli Godino López, Pilar Martínez Olmo, Carmen Ortiz García and Cristina Sánchez Carretero, Madrid, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2000 and 2001Publication . Cohen, Judith R.Luis Díaz Viana’s introduction provides a substantial overview of literatura de cordel and the history of attitudes toward and studies of the genre. He recalls Julio Caro Baroja’s characterization of it as a “infierno literario” and discusses the juglar as a kind of “amphibion” navigating between different registers of culture (I: 34). Díaz Viana goes on to resume and further develop themes at once related to chapbooks and broadsides, and, in a broader application, central to his thinking over the years, particularly challenging the concepts of the “traditional” and the “popular”, and the very existence of “traditional culture” (I:31ff). He also, in vol. II, refers to the relatively new concept of the glocal, applying it to the goigs (gozos; see Josep Martí’s discussion, I: 191-226) and to cordel literature more generally (II,232). His thoughtful questions and reflections stimulate readers to pose our own about the very idea of “value” and “importance” and who is entitled to make judgments about them.
- Romancero Sefardí de Marruecos. Antología de tradición oralPublication . Cohen, Judith R.This volume, in Spanish, is another welcome example of Weich-‐Shahak’s continuing work documenting, disseminating and providing accurate information about Judeo-‐Spanish song. Over eighty Moroccan Judeo-‐Spanish romances are fully transcribed (text and music) and annotated, with both textual and musical variants indicated. The selections are taken from Weich-‐Shahak’s 1976-‐1994 fieldwork in Israel, deposited at the National Sound Archives (NSA) of the Jewish National and University Library at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem; each item is identified with its NSA catalogue number.
- Tradições musicais da EstremaduraPublication . Cohen, Judith R.This monumental, hefty volume is the work of someone who passionately loves musical tradition, and believes in documenting and disseminating it; it is hard to believe that the author’s full - time “official” profession has nothing to do with music or ethnogr aphy. The focus on Estremadura is an unusual and welcome one: while there is always more work to be done on Trás - os - Montes, the Beiras and other regions of mainland Portugal, little attention has been paid to Estremadura. Clearly, the author wanted to get “everything” in, and the result is a multi - faceted picture of musical traditions in this province, a book to return to often, to read, to look at, and CD’s to listen to for pleasure and for study.