El Entierro De Cortijo / Cortijo's Wake

158 Pages·2004·7.094 MB·English

by  Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá

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CORTIJO’S WAKE
EL ENTIERRO DE CORTIJO

EDGARDO RODRIGUEZ JULIA
Cortijo’s Wake
El entierro de Cortijo
TRANSLATED AND WITH AN
INTRODUCTION BY JUAN FLORES
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
DURHAM AND LONDON
2004
English translation © 2004 Duke University Press El entierro de Cortijo ©
1983 Ediciones Huracan, Inc., and Edgardo Rodriguez Julia All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper Designed by
C.H.Westmoreland Typeset in Carter & Cohn Galliard by Tseng Information
Systems, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on
the last printed page of this book.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments _ vii
A Note on the Artist Rafael Ferrer — viii
Introduction 1
Cortijo’s Wake 15
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I would like to thank the author of El entierro de Cortijo,
Edgardo Rodriguez Julia, for his generous assistance and
indispensable collaboration in preparing the translation and
all aspects of this bilingual edition. I also received invaluable
help and information from my dear friends and collaborators
Maximo Colon, Rafael Ferrer, Aurora Flores, René Lopez,
and Carmen Rivera Izcoa; I thank them sincerely. My special
gratitude and affection are due to Miriam Jiménez Roman,
my companera, who offered knowing advice and support
from beginning to end.
A NOTE ON THE ARTIST RAFAEL FERRER
Rafael Ferrer was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1933.
Ferrer began his career as a drummer, a timbalero; in the
early 1950s he played with Rafael Cortijo and Ismael Rivera.
He participated in the life of the musicians and formed a
friendship with Cortijo that ended only with Cortijo’s death
in 1982. Since the 1960s Ferrer has been an internationally
acclaimed artist whose work has been included in major
collections around the world. The paintings in the
present book were composed on the occasion of
Cortijo’s funeral. They were generously
donated by the artist for use
in this publication.