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Salvadoran Refugees Audio Cassette Collection
MS.2017.010  
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Audio Cassettes, 1982-1983

Arrangement

Alphabetical and thereunder chronological

Scope and Contents

This series includes audio cassettes of songs by and interviews with Salvadorian refugees living in Mesa Grande, a UN refugee camp in Honduras. The material was collected by members of the Los Angeles-based new song group, Sabiá (Cindy Harding, Libby Harding, Mari Riddle, and Ericka Verba) in 1983. The series contains additionally: the audio cassette "Escuchen Nuestras Voces/Hear our Voices," featuring songs and poems by the refugees produced by Sabiá in 1983; an audio cassette of an interview with international aid worker; an interview with a refugee in Mesa Grande; an audio cassette of songs and poems recorded by the refugees and sent to Sabiá after the band's visit to Mesa Grande (labeled "Savia").
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Escuchen Nuestras Voces / Hear Our Voices, 1983

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Interview with International Aid Worker, Mesa Grance, 1983

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Mesa Grande Tape 1, u.d.

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Mesa Grande Tape 2, u.d.

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Mesa Grande Tape 3, u.d

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Mesa Grande Tape 4, u.d.

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Mesa Grande Tape 5, u.d.

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Mesa Grande Tape 6, u.d.

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Refugee Interview, u.d.

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Savia, u.d.

 

Files, 1983

Arrangement

Alphabetical and thereunder chronological

Scope and Contents

This series consists of three files: a. Tape Catalog and Notes, u.d.; b. Lyric Sheets, u.d; c. Escuchen Nuestras Voces / Hear Our Voices. One file includes handwritten catalog and notes referencing the material found on the audiocassettes recorded by Sabiá in Mesa Grande in 1983. Another file contains handwritten and typed lyric sheets for approximately 30 songs and poems. Some were produced by the refugees in Mesa Grande and some were transcribed by the members of Sabiá and friendsfrom the songs found on the audiocassettes recorded by Sabiá in Mesa Grande 1983. A third file contains a copy of the bilingual songbook Escuchen Nuestras Voces / Hear Our Voices that accompanies the audiocassette by the same title, published by Sabiá in 1983.
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Escuchen Nuestras Voces / Hear Our Voices, 1983

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Lyric Sheets, u.d.

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Tape Catalog and Notes, u.d.