Music in Mexico : experiencing music, expressing culture /

The complex legacy of Mexico's ethnic past and geographic location have shaped the country and its culture. In Music in Mexico, Alejandro L. Madrid uses extensive fieldwork, interviews with performers, eyewitness accounts of performances, and vivid illustrations to guide students through modern...

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Main Author: Madrid, Alejandro L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Spanish
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013.
Series:Global music series
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction : Ethnic identity and music in Mexico
  • Music, migration, and diaspora in Mexico
  • Media and music in Mexico
  • 2. The transnational resurgence of Son Jarocho : The Mexican Son complex
  • Style and practice in Son Jarocho
  • Son Jarocho in Veracruz : a history of migration and transculturation
  • The rise of Son Jarocho as a Mexican national icon
  • The transnational resurgence of Son Jarocho
  • 3. Bolero : cosmopolitanism and the Mexican romantic song until the 1960s : The basic stylistic features of a transnational genre
  • The bolero in Mexico : the Trova Yucateca tradition
  • Mexico City and the production and popularization of the Mexican bolero : 1930s-1950s
  • Trios and Bolero Ranchero : the 1950s and 1960s
  • 4. Balada : cosmopolitanism and the Mexican romantic song in the 1970s : Shifting taste : from bolero to balada in 1960s and 1970s Mexico
  • Televisa and the balada for the middle classes
  • Balada Grupera and working-class sentimentality
  • Masculine, feminine, and queer sensibilities in the balada
  • 5. Norteña music and its history of hybridization : The myth of Onda Grupera
  • Accordion music from the Mexican Northeast to the world
  • The Corrido in norteña music
  • The performance of a norteña identity
  • 6. Banda music : from village brass music to narcocorridos : The banda craze
  • A history of banda music
  • Banda after NAFTA. The transnational re-imagination of banda music
  • Narcocorrido : a genre common to the norteña and banda traditions
  • 7. Rock and Canto Nuevo : alternative musics in Mexico : Before the Avándaro Festival : the arrival of rock 'n' roll in Mexico
  • From Nueva Canción to Canto Nuevo
  • Rock in the 1980s : from Rock Rupestre to Rock en tu Idioma.
  • CD: La María Chucena (Santana Alonso Vidal, requinto, vocals ; Severiano Cipol Xolo, requinto ; Emiliano Toto Urbano, jarana tercera)
  • La jota ; La María Chuchena (Ensamble Continuo)
  • Pasión / Guty Cárdenas ; Luis Rosado Vega (Guty Cárdenas, vocals, guitar)
  • Aventurera / Agustín Lera (Los Tres Reyes)
  • Máquina 501 (Antonio Federico, vocals ; Hipólito Romero, vocals, guitar ; Frank Moreno, accordion ; Paul Romero, guitar)
  • El sinaloense / Severiano Briseño (Banda Los Guamuchileños)
  • Canción / Santa Sabina ; Xavier Villarrutia (Santa Sabina, vocals, with instrumental ensemble)
  • Nahuel ; Vienen cantando / Carlos Poncel de Perarlta (Mexicanto).