Guillermo E. Hernandez obituary

Guillermo E. Hernandez In Memoriam

Guillermo E. Hernández, professor in the UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese; former CSRC Director; and a leading scholar on corridos, or Mexican ballads, and Chicano literature, passed away on July 16, 2006, in Mexico City.

In lieu of flowers, the Hernández family has requested that donations be made to the Guillermo E. Hernández Memorial Scholarship Fund at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center. Checks should be made out to the UCLA Foundation/The Guillermo E. Hernández Memorial Scholarship and mailed to UCLA, 1309 Murphy Hall, Los Angeles, California 90095.

Guillermo E. Hernández home page

Corridos Sin Fronteras: A New World Ballad Tradition

Hernández created a traveling exhibition and educational web site celebrating the narrative songs known as corridos, on which he was one of the world's experts. Sponsored by the Smithsonian Insitution Traveling Exhibiton Service (SITES) and Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives, it opened in 2002 and travelled throughout the United States until July 24, 2005.

Frontera Digitization Project

In October 2001, Hernández initiated the digital preservation of the Arhoolie Foundation's Strachwitz Frontera Collection, the largest repository of Mexican and Mexican-American popular and vernacular recordings in existence.

Los Tigres del Norte Fund

Under Hernández’s direction in 2000, the award-winning Mexican norteño band Los Tigres del Norte donated $500,000 through its Los Tigres del Norte Foundation to establish the Los Tigres del Norte Fund at UCLA. The fund supports research, teaching and preservation efforts related to Spanish-language music in the United States and provided major support to digitize and provide public access to the Frontera Collection.

Interview

Discovering The Tradition of Corridos – as far back as the 17th Century
October 19, 2005
One hour presentation by Isabel Castro Melendez and Guillermo E. Hernandez.
Watch video of the session (129.2 MB)

Publications

Hernández was the author of Chicano Satire: A Study in Literary Culture (1991), for which he won an outstanding academic book award by Choice: Books for Libraries.

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He also wrote for the corrido album The Mexican Revolution a 180-page book written with full transcriptions and translations of all of the songs. He was working on The Frontera Collection of Mexican American Music (1900-1990): Papers and Recordings and a book in progress titled Agravios, calamidades y venganzas: Una historia del Corrido.

"En busca del autor de'“El contrabando de El Paso'”

Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 30. no. 2 (fall 2005)

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UCLA Today 2001

New attitude is necessary, ethical step toward social accountability: Past damages to group in language, image, labor needs to be acknowledged, corrected

Daily Bruin May 14, 2001.

What is a Corrido? Thematic Representation and Narrative Discourse

Studies in Latin American Popular Culture 18 (1999).

El corrido de "La Martina" o romance de "Blancaniña"

Revista de Dialectología y Tradiciones Populares

Nuevas perspectivas sobre el corrido: Implicaciones de complicaciones y estudios contemporáneos.

Las características cómicas del pocho y del pachuco: Sus antecedentes literarios y populares Nuevo Texto Crítico Año II, no. 3 (Primer Semestre de 1989): 171-181.

La punitiva: El corrido norteño y la tradición oral, impresa y fonográfica