The Singing Mountaineers: Songs and Tales of the Quechua People

by José María Arguedas, Ruth Stephan (Editor)

Overview

The Quechua people, the "singing mountaineers" of Peru, still sing the songs that their Inca ancestors knew before the Spaniards invaded the Andes. Some of these songs, collected and translated into Spanish by José María Arguedas and María Lourdes Valladares from the Quechua language and the Huanca dialect, are now presented for the first time in English in the beautiful translations of Ruth Stephan, author of the recent prize-winning novel, The Flight. Also included in this rich collection are nine folk tales collected by Father Jorge A. Lira, translated into Spanish by Sr. Arguedas, and into English by Kate and Angel Flores.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780292792203
Publisher:	University of Texas Press
Publication date:	06/04/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	212
File size:	1 MB

Table of Contents

• Introduction by Ruth Stephan
• On Andean Fiestas and the Indian by José María Arguedas
• Quechua Songs

  • To Be Wandering
  • The Fire that I Have Started
  • That She May Not Find Dew
  • I Nurse a Fly
  • You Were Crying Alone, Little Duck
  • Ay Purple Flower!
  • A Wandering Hummingbird
  • In this Growing Darkness
  • The Bird that Hides Itself
  • The Black Water
  • Without Anyone, Without Anyone
  • Crystalline River
  • Leave-taking
  • Divided Herb
  • Flying High in the Air
  • Celso Medina
  • Emerald Hummingbird
  • The Sand of the River
  • When You Find Yourself Alone
  • The Ischu Is Weeping
  • Snow Storm
  • Like Two Doves
  • Carnival Song
  • Tambobamba Carnival
  • Tell Her that I Have Wept
  • The Sweet Water
  • What Sorrow Will She Dream
  • Falcon of the Heights
  • Like a River My Weeping
  • Yunca
  • The Threshing Songs of Angasmayo

    • First Song
    • Second Song: Guavas
    • Third Song: Green Olive Tree
    • Fourth Song: Little Lizard
    • Fifth Song: The Bagre Fish
    • Sixth Song: Cerbaschay
    • Seventh Song: Bachelor
    • Eighth Song: Lima Lima Flower
    • Ninth Song
    • Tenth Song: Majordomo
    • Eleventh Song

• Quechua Tales

  • The Hail
  • The Youth Who Rose to the Sky
  • The Little Bull with the Shiny Skin
  • The Flour Dealer
  • The Head of the Town and the Demon
  • The Condor’s Lover
  • Miguel Wayapa
  • The Snakes Sweetheart
  • Isicha Puytu

• On The Songs And Tales by José María Arguedas
• Editor’s Notes And Bibliography