MUSIC_MUSICA

DE COLORES, UN CORRIDO

http://www.colapublib.org/chavez/decolores.htm

http://www.joseluisorozco.com/Vol09.htm (my favorite version)

http://chavez.cde.ca.gov/ModelCurriculum/Teachers/Lessons/Resources/

Audio/De%20Colores_8m_J1.mp3

http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/score_lessons/corridos/pages/decolores.html

http://www.sgci.mec.es/usa/apoyo/pdf/apoyo-pri-a8.pdf

http://chavez.cde.ca.gov/ModelCurriculum/Teachers/Lessons/Grade_1_De_Colores.rtf

http://juegosycanciones.com/decolores1.html

http://www.xtec.es/rtee/europa/164es/index_esp.htm

http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/projects/ninos/songsrhymes.html#colores

http://seeds.coedu.usf.edu/spanishEnhance/activities/all/559/559.html

http://www.nellieedge.com/freelittlebooks/decolores.htm

http://www.nellieedge.com/pdf/decolores.pdf

http://www.hello-world.com/Spanish/song/colores.php

http://www.nellieedge.com/catalog/spanish/spanishbigbooks.asp#book2

theme song of the farmworkers of the UFW about the the beauty

of the countryside

integrated thematic units

sound files

last three URLs offer black outine booklets to print out (second is high quality)

and a black outline big book with music

Notas de Alma Flor Ada, poeta: La canción tradicional "De colores" ha sido

adoptada como la canción característica de los campesinos migrantes

organizados en sindicatos durante los años sesenta y setenta por César

Chávez.

(SOURCE: DÍAS Y DÍAS DE POESÍA by Alma Flor Ada, p. 127. Available from

Hampton-Brown.)

"¡VIVA CÉSAR CHÁVEZ!" CHANT

http://www.joseluisorozco.com/Vol06.htm

I use this chant with my fifth graders. They love it!

José-Luis Orozco is a master on this recording.

Click on the graphic below to access my chant handout with lyrics.

CORRIDOS DE CÉSAR CHÁVEZ

http://www.joseluisorozco.com/Vol10.htm

http://rims.k12.ca.us/artscenter/exhibits/corridos/index.shtml

http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/score_lessons/corridos/

http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/score_lessons/corridos/pages/corrido_chavez.html

http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/score_lessons/corridos/

http://www.elbalero.gob.mx/kids/about/html/did/corridos.html

http://www.corridos.org/

last URL is more adult-oriented

Notes: A corrido is a narrative song, or ballad, whose characters, events and themes

are representative the cultural history of local communities in the United States and Mexico.

This last site has audio and video examples, as well as the words and lyrics for corridos

such as De Colores, The Song of César E. Chávez (Corrido de César E. Chávez)

and Song for the Cause (Corrido de la Causa).