One Way to Be in the World: Letters Bring Singing to All Audiences

“They are cheerful women like shells. They are always with the tambourine, give it to her with their hands and don’t stop playing,” says Manuel Cajaraville, of the Aturuxo group, about the Mens Pandeireteiras, in the documentary report by Tareixa Navaza for TVE broadcast in 1983. Manuela Lema, Teresa García Prieto y Prudencia and Asunción Garrido Ameixenda were part of this group of Mens players, Malpica, who one day, already older, went up to t…