Music of Mexico facts for kids
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Music of Mexico has a lot of different forms of music genres that are performed by Mexican musicians. It has been influenced by a variety of cultures, most notably indigenous Mexican and European, since the Late Middle Ages.
Many traditional Mexican songs are well-known worldwide, although their origin in Mexico is not clear for example La Bamba (The Bamba).
La Cucaracha (The Cockroach), although popularized during the Mexican Revolution, is a Spanish corrido.
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Traditional folk music
Canción Ranchera
Mexican sones
Mexican sones, developed from the mixture of Spanish music with indigenous music from different regions, hence the music exhibited lots of variation from differents places, both in rhythm and instrumentation.
- Son Huasteco music, from the Huasteca territory, this music is played in the states of Hidalgo, Veracruz, San Luis Potosí and Zacatecas and the fiddle is accompanied with jarana huasteca and huapanguera.
- Son jarocho from the area around Veracruz.
- Son jaliscience from Jalisco
- Chilena from the Costa chica region in Guerrero and Oaxaca.
- Calentano music from Tierra Caliente.
- Abajeño music from Jalisco, Colima, and Michoacán.
Popular music
Popular music of folk roots
Banda
Banda music was created with the imitation of military bands that were imported during the Second Mexican Empire, headed by emperor Maximillian I of Mexico in the 1860s.
Banda sounds very similar to polka music.
Polish immigrants established themselves in the state of Sinaloa. It was further popularized during the Mexican Revolution when local authorities and states formed their own bands to play in the town squares.
Revolutionary leaders such as Pancho Villa, also took wind bands with them wherever they went.
Banda has to this day remained popular throughout the central and northern states.
Today people associate banda with Sinaloense. This originated in the 1940s when the media distributed Banda el Recodo repertoire as exclusively from Sinaloa when it was actually regional music from all over Mexico.
Although banda music is played by many bands from different parts of Mexico, its original roots are in Sinaloa, which is hugely famous for bands such as Banda el Recodo from Sinaloa.
Mariachi
The Mariachi-style of music originated in the state of Jalisco, particularly in the city of Cocula, near Guadalajara, as well as surrounding states of western Mexico.
Mariachi is now popular throughout Mexico and the Southwest United States, and is considered representative of Mexican music and culture.
This style of music is played by a group consisting of five or more musicians that wear charro suits.
The traditional mariachi band was made up of at least two violins, a guitar, a guitarrón (large bass guitar) and a vihuela (similar to a guitar but with a round back tha plays at a higher pitch than the traditional guitar). Nowadays mariachi bands also usually include trumpets, and sometimes a harp.
Norteño
Another important music style is musica Norteña, or northern style tunes, which has been the basis for such sub-genres as musica de banda. Influenced by both Bohemian music and immigrant miners, its rhythm was derived from European polkas, which were popular during the 1800s.
Popular music of Latinoamerican roots
Cuban influence
Rumba came from the black Mexican enslaved people in Veracruz, Mexico city, and Yucatán. The style began in Cuba and later became famous in the black community of Mexico.
From the beginning of the 20th century, bolero arrived to Yucatán, and Danzón to Veracruz. Both styles became very popular all over the country, and a Mexican style of both rhythms was developed.
In the 40s the Cubans Perez Prado, Benny More emigrated to Mexico, they brought with them the mambo, which became extremely popular especially in Mexico City, later on mambo developed into Cha cha cha which was also very popular.
Cumbia
The history of Cumbia in Mexico is almost as old as Cumbia in Colombia. In the 1940s Colombian singer Luis Carlos Meyer Castandet, emigrated to Mexico. In the 50s he recorded what many people think was the first cumbia recorded outside of Colombia, La Cumbia Cienaguera. This is when Cumbia began to be popularized in Mexico.
Today Cumbia is played in many different ways, and has slight variations depending on the geographical area like Cumbia andina mexicana, Cumbia Norteña, Tecno-cumbia.
Popular music (pop and rock)
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The Mexican music market serves as a launching pad to stardom for a lot of non-Mexican artists who are interested extending the market-range of their music. Such was the case with Julio Iglesias, Enrique Iglesias, Shakira, Chayanne, Alejandro Sanz, Allison, Aventura, Juanes, Mecano, Motel, Sonica, Daddy Yankee, J. King & Maximan, Wisin & Yandel, and Ricky Martin, among many others. According to the America Top 100, Mexico had over 90 hits in Latin America during 2006, almost a third more than its closest competitor, the United States.
The most known Mexican pop singers nowadays are: Luis Miguel, Alejandro Fernández, Thalía, Marco Antonio Solís, Paulina Rubio, Alejandra Guzmán, Gloria Trevi, Cristian Castro, Anahí and Dulce María.
Rock and metal
The Mexican rock movement began in the late 1950s and early 1960s, rapidly becoming popular, and peaking in the 80s and 90s with real authentic sounds and styles. One of the early Mexican Rock bands came out of the East Los Angeles Area, "Los Nómadas." (The Nomads) They were one of the first racially-integrated bands of the 50s, consisting of 3 Latino Boys, Chico Vasquez, J.D. Moreno, Abel Padilla, and a Caucasian boy Bill Aken.
Mexican Rock combined the traditional instruments and stories of Mexico in its songs. Mexican along with Latin American Rock remain very popular in Mexico, surpassing other cultural interpretations of Rock and Roll.
Classical music
Mexico has a long tradition of classical music, as far back as the 16th century, when it was a Spanish colony. Music of New Spain, especially that of Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla and Hernando Franco, is increasingly recognized as a significant contribution to New World culture.
In the 19th century the waltzes of Juventino Rosas achieved world recognition. Manuel M. Ponce is recognized as an important composer for the Spanish classical guitar, responsible for widening the repertoire for this instrument.
In the 20th century, Carlos Chavez, is a notable composer who wrote symphonies, ballets, and a wide catalog of chamber music, within varied esthetic orientations.
Images for kids
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A statue in Mérida, Yucatán, of Pedro Infante who, with Jorge Negrete and Javier Solís are known and made up the "Three Mexican Roosters" of Mexican music.
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Carlos Chávez, composer
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Los Folkloristas a musical group formed in Mexico City in 1966 and dedicated to the research, execution, and dissemination of traditional Latin American music. Since its creation, almost fifty musicians have passed through the group.
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Aleks Syntek winner of three Latin Billboard awards and an Ariel award for Best Film Music.
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Café Tacuba performing in Pontevedra, Spain
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Zoé the band has achieved success in Mexico and most Spanish-speaking countries
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Lila Downs in the "National Sor Juana Festival" 2007.
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Panteon Rococo
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Armando Manzanero widely considered the premier Mexican romantic composer of the postwar era.
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Luis Miguel, "El sol de Mexico" (The Sun of Mexico). His album 33, which featured a collection of ballads and uptempo songs climbed to number 1 on Billboard's Latin Charts earning Luis Miguel two Billboard Awards as well as Grammy and Latin Grammy award nominations.
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On September 28, 2010, Cristian Castro released the single "La Nave del Olvido" and "Amor, Amor" as part of Viva el Príncipe, his tribute album to José José.
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Piña was a pioneer in the mixture and fusion of tropical sounds.
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Ángela Peralta, operatic soprano
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OFUNAM playing at Sala Nezahualcóyotl (Room Nezahualcoyotl).
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Cuarteto Latinoamericano is a renowned string quartet, formed in Mexico in 1981.
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Jaramar sings in the Genre of World Music
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See also
In Spanish: Música de México para niños
