Name
Ortiz, Efraín (Singer)
Delano, Jack (Former owner)
Title
Efrain Ortiz - Performance Sample (44)
Abstract
Boston Cable Television
Efraín Ortiz, a Puerto Rican 'declamador' (reciter) of verso negro, an African-influenced style of poetry that arose in Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Dominican Republic from the 1920s through the 1940s.
Collection Name
Jack and Irene Delano papers
Archival Context
Series I: Audiovisual. Subseries I.1: Film and Video. Box no. AV 3
Subjects
Poets, Puerto Rican; Caribbean poetry (Spanish); Caribbean poetry
Format
video recordings
Genre
Filmed performances
Origin Information
Boston (Mass.)
Date
1988
Physical Description
1 video file (62 minutes)
Note
Original format: VHS
Language
Spanish
Library Location
Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University
Persistent URL
https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/rmnq-fs43