MS 612
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Collection Summary | |
| Creator: | Acosta, Vicente S., 1918-1983 |
| Collection Name: | Papers of Vicente S. Acosta, |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1947-1983 |
| Physical Description: | 3.25 Linear Feet |
| Abstract: | Papers, 1947-1983, of Tucson, Arizona, Spanish teacher and folklorist, Vicente Sanchez Acosta (1918-1983). Contains professional correspondence, manuscripts and essays, research materials, and audio tapes documenting Acosta's interests in the Spanish language, folk songs and folklore and Southwestern United States and Mexican culture. This collection is part of the Southwest Folklore Center collection. The Southwest Folklore Center was founded in 1979 after the dissolution of the University of Arizona Folklore Committee and collected information about folk communities, arts, music, and other humanities-related materials. This collection was previously SWF 006. The materials were transferred to Special Collections in 2017. |
| Collection Number: | MS 612 |
| Language: | Materials are in English and Spanish. |
| Repository: |
University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections University of Arizona PO Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 Phone: 520-621-6423 Fax: 520-621-9733 URL: http://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/ E-Mail: LBRY-askspcoll@email.arizona.edu |
Vicente S. Acosta was born in 1918. He taught Spanish and served as chair of the Spanish department at Santa Rita High School in Tucson, Arizona. He developed an interest in numerous elements of Southwestern folklore, such as folksongs, herbal remedies, and the way the people of the region used the Spanish language in their everyday speech and communication. Acosta received a B.A. degree from the University of Arizona. He served as a member of the University's Folklore Committee in the1940s and 1950s, and earned an M.A. degree from the University in 1951. Acosta continued collecting folklore materials and conducting research throughout his career as a teacher, focusing most of his collecting activities and investigations on folksongs and corridos. Acosta died in 1983.
The collection includes professional correspondence between Acosta and his colleagues and informants on topics related to his interests in Spanish-language songs and song forms, Spanish personal names and nicknames, and herbal remedies. Also included are copies of Acosta's essays and presentations, as well as several drafts of his M.A. thesis, one of which includes manuscript corrections. The collection also includes audiotapes made by Acosta as he conducted his research. Some tapes include song performances discussed in his master's thesis; others contain recordings of spoken Spanish which he used in his research on the Spanish language and its spoken characteristics. The final accepted version of Acosta's University of Arizona M.A. thesis is located in the Main and Special Collections libraries, at call number E 9791 1951 1. This collection is part of the Southwest Folklore Center collection. The Southwest Folklore Center was founded in 1979 after the dissolution of the University of Arizona Folklore Committee and collected information about folk communities, arts, music, and other humanities-related materials. This collection was previously SWF 006. The materials were transferred to Special Collections in 2017.
There are no restrictions on this collection.
Requests for permission to publish from the collection should be discussed with the coordinator of the University of Arizona Southwest Folklore Center or the University of Arizona Manuscripts Librarian. It is the researcher's responsibility to obtain the necessary publication rights and copyright clearances for any planned publication.
Papers of Vicente S. Acosta (MS 612). Special Collections, University of Arizona Libraries.
| Series I: Correspondence, 1963-1978 | |||||||||||
| Professional correspondence between Acosta and his colleagues and informants on topics related to his interests in Spanish-language songs and song forms, Spanish surnames, and herbal remedies. | |||||||||||
| Arrangement | |||||||||||
| Chronological. | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Correspondence, 1963-1978 | |||||||||
| Series II: Publications and Essays, 1950-1983 | |||||||||||
| Published and unpublished papers, essays and talks given by Acosta on Spanish-language songs, ballads and corridos, Spanish slang and word play, and herbal remedies and folklore. Includes Spanish-English glossaries for medical and educational vocabularies, early drafts of his works on Spanish surnames, Ibero-American Roots of Tucson, Arizonaand Raices Ibero-Americanas de Tucson, Arizona. Includes two drafts, one with manuscript corrections, and a transcript of the field recordings of his University of Arizona M.A. thesis, Some Surviving Aspects of Spanish Folklore in Arizona. The transcript of tape recordings is dated 1962. | |||||||||||
| Arrangement | |||||||||||
| Chronological. | |||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | Some Surviving Elements of Spanish Folklore in Arizona, M.A. thesis draft with manuscript corrections, 1950 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Some Surviving Elements of Spanish Folklore in Arizona, M.A. thesis draft; no title page; incomplete, 1951 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Some Surviving Elements of Spanish Folklore in Arizona, transcript of recordings used in M.A. thesis [?], 1962 | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | The Spanish Ballad in Arizona History , 1963 | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Hipocorísticos y sobrenombres , ca. 1967 | |||||||||
| 1 | 7-8 | Some Remedies Collected from Oral Tradition and Some Remedies Collected Through Herb Stores , 1967 | |||||||||
| 1 | 9-10 | Homenaje al Sr. Guadalupe Armenta , 1972 | |||||||||
| 1 | 11 | A Dental Glossary: English-Spanish , 1976 | |||||||||
| 1 | 12 | A Spanish-English Glossary of Educational Terminology Used in Mexican Schools , 1978 | |||||||||
| 1 | 13 | Ibero-American roots of Tucson, Arizona , 1978 | |||||||||
| 1 | 14 | Raices Ibero-Americanas de Tucson, Arizona , ca. 1978 | |||||||||
| 1 | 15 | Origin and meaning of Ibero-American surnames in Tucson, Arizona , 1983 | |||||||||
| 1 | 16 | Untitled essay on corridos, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 17 | Léxico fronterizo de Arizona , undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 18 | El romance español y el corrido mexicano , undated | |||||||||
| Series III: Research and Field Notes, ca. 1947-1983 | |||||||||||
| Research notes and materials used by Acosta for his study of the Spanish language, Spanish language and slang, and folklore, including herbal remedies. | |||||||||||
| Arrangement | |||||||||||
| Topical. | |||||||||||
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| 1 | 19 | "Vocabulario de la poesia Gauchesca ...", | |||||||||
| 1 | 20 | Spanish word play, | |||||||||
| 1 | 21 | Mexican proverbs; "refranes y dichos mexicanos", | |||||||||
| 1 | 22 | "Algunos horrores de paulabrous spawniolas [sic]", 1978 | |||||||||
| 1 | 23 | Glossaries: baseball, "fraces y palabras parlamentarias," legal, 1980 | |||||||||
| 1 | 24 | Herbal remedies, 1966-1974 | |||||||||
| 1 | 25-26 | Dance directions, 1953-1956 | |||||||||
| 1 | 27 | Bibliographies, | |||||||||
| 1 | 28 | Estudio paremiológico, | |||||||||
| 1 | 29 | Miscellaneous folklore notes, 1950-1951 | |||||||||
| 1 | 30 | Notes for Ibero-American roots of Tucson, Arizona , 1978 | |||||||||
| 1 | 31 | Notes for Hipocorísticos y sobrenombres , | |||||||||
| 1 | 32-34 | Notes for Origin and meaning of Ibero-American surnames in Tucson, Arizona , | |||||||||
| 1 | 35 | "Spanish folklore collection of Vincente [sic] Acosta, Tucson, Arizona.", | |||||||||
| 1 | 36 | La Llorona; la sirena, | |||||||||
| 1 | 37 | Oversized illustration for Raices Ibero-Americanas de Tucson, Arizona , | |||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 2 | 1 | Romances, | |||||||||
| 2 | 2 | "Revolution songs," and folksongs from my thesis; Paco Río, etc., | |||||||||
| 2 | 3 | Lyrics for corridos, etc., 1977 | |||||||||
| 2 | 4 | Survival of Spanish folklore in Arizona; notes and transcripts of corridos, 1947-1948 | |||||||||
| 2 | 5 | "Yo no me caso, compadre;" other folksongs, | |||||||||
| 2 | 6 | Spanish-language song books, 1950s | |||||||||
| 2 | 7 | Corridos por el Señor Torres, June 1978 | |||||||||
| 2 | 8 | Notecards with notes on the origins of Spanish surnames, | |||||||||
| 2 | 9 | Listing of Vicente Acosta tape reels, | |||||||||
| Series IV: Audio Materials, 1964-1967 | |||||||||||
| Audio tape recordings of interviews, field recordings, and recordings of Spanish songs used by Acosta in his research on songs and the Spanish language. This series includes Acosta's tape recordings used in the creation of his University of Arizona M.A. thesis. Two sets of eleven tape reels are labeled as thesis tapes, both with roman numeral designations. For purposes of arrangement, the folders for the second series are identified with the roman numeral found on the tape containers, followed by the letter "B" to designate them as the second series. | |||||||||||
| Arrangement | |||||||||||
| Topical. | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 3 | 1 | "The Spanish Ballad in Arizona History: Songs of José Lisorio and El Merino" (Paper submitted to the Arizona Historical Association), | |||||||||
| 3 | 2 | Entrevista: Spanish nicknames; sobrenombres , 22 Jan. 1967 | |||||||||
| 3 | 3 | Platica de Sr. José Fierros y Sr. José Felix; cuentos de Don Cocahuate; corridos, etc. for linguistic study, Feb. 1967 | |||||||||
| 3 | 4 | Platica José Fierros, RubenCamacho (Gardener's), March 1967 | |||||||||
| 3 | 5 | Entrevista: remedios Ch. Seros; Platica del remedio del yerba, Oct. 1966 | |||||||||
| 3 | 6 | Short sentences; occlusive "B"; Gardener's talk (U of A), | |||||||||
| 3 | 7 | Peru and Venezuela; Irel Urreiztiera, | |||||||||
| 3 | 8 | José Fierros; "El tragareces"; Charrai "Cup of coffee", April 1967 | |||||||||
| 3 | 9 | El romance y el corrido: conference given to folklore class, | |||||||||
| 3 | 10 | Program on KUAT, Channel 6, 14 Jan. 1964 | |||||||||
| 3 | 11-21 | Thesis I-XI, | |||||||||
| 3 | 22-24 | Thesis I-III B, | |||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 4 | 1 | Thesis III-IV B, | |||||||||
| 4 | 2 | Thesis IV-V B, | |||||||||
| 4 | 3-6 | Thesis IV [sic]-VII B, | |||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 5 | 1 | Thesis VII-VIII B, | |||||||||
| 5 | 2 | Thesis IX-X B, | |||||||||
| 5 | 3 | Thesis XI B, | |||||||||
| 5 | 4 | Romances; corridos; songs from the "thesis", | |||||||||
| Arrangement | |||||||||||
| Arranged in order of their appearance in the book. | |||||||||||