Jack Loeffler

Jack Loeffler is a writer, aural historian, and radio producer in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is a winner of a 2008 Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts for ethnomusicology and writing.

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Adventures with Ed

A Portrait of Abbey

University of New Mexico Press

Now in paperback, this is a biographical memoir of Edward Abby, a free spirited author who, like no other before him, has truly influenced the American West. "Jack's story elucidates and demythifies the Abbey legend, giving us powerful flesh and blood instead."--John Nichols

  • Copyright year: 2003
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La musica de los viejitos

Hispano Folk Music of the Rio Grande del Norte

University of New Mexico Press

A companion set of audio compact discs to the text collecting examples of the musical forms used over the centuries in this often isolated and harsh but beautiful region of the Rio Rande. A blend of religious and secular music from sixteenth-century Spain, Mexican-influenced folk tunes, and melodies indigenous to the life of the region, the music covered here includes romances, trovos, cuandos and decimas, inditas, corridos, canciónes, ceremonial and religious music, and dance music.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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Thinking Like a Watershed

Voices from the West

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2012
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A Pagan Polemic

Reflections on Nature, Consciousness, and Anarchism

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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Survival Along the Continental Divide

An Anthology of Interviews

University of New Mexico Press

Loeffler has recorded interviews with representatives of the diverse cultures of New Mexico, revealing the cultural mosaic of the people along the Continental Divide.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Hispanic Folk Music of New Mexico and the Southwest

A Self-Portrait of a People

University of New Mexico Press

First published in 1980 and now available only from the University of New Mexico Press, this classic compilation of New Mexico folk music is based on thirty-five years of field research by a giant of modern music, composer John Donald Robb.

  • Copyright year: 1980
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Headed into the Wind

A Memoir

University of New Mexico Press

Loeffler, a former jazz musician, fire lookout, museum curator, bioregionalist, and self-taught aural historian, shares his humor and imagination, his adventures, observations, reflections, and meditations along the trail in his retelling of a life well lived.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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