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Grandante, William. "Mexican Popular Music at Mid-century: The role of José Alfredo Jiménez and the Canción Ranchera," Studies in Latin American Popular Culture 2(1983): 99–114. Grial, Hugo de Geijertam. Popular Music in Mexico. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press 1976. Moreno Rivas, Yolanda. Historia de la música popular mexicana ...
Ranchera (pronounced [ranˈtʃeɾa]) or canción ranchera is a genre of traditional music of Mexico. It dates to before the years of the Mexican Revolution. Rancheras today are played in the vast majority of regional Mexican music styles. Drawing on rural traditional folk music, the ranchera developed as a symbol of a new national consciousness ...
The son music from this area was adapted by Oaxaca musician Susana Harp in the 2000s. Traditional chilena songs include “Mariquita María” and “El Santiaguito.” [10] Abajeño music, also known as pirekua, is tied to the Purépecha people. The songs of this style are dedicated to flowers, the countryside, nature, women and life.
Song about the battle of Ciudad Juarez title Toma de Ciudad Juárez. In the Mestizo-Mexican cultural area, the three variants of corrido (romance, revolutionary and modern) are both alive and sung, along with popular sister narrative genres, such as the "valona" of Michoacán state, the "son arribeño" of the Sierra Gorda (Guanajuato, Hidalgo and Querétaro states) and others.
Yucatán has its own musical traditions, one in particular known as "música/danza jarana." Although the jarana is the main/central instrument in a typical ensemble, other kinds of guitars are utilized. The local music generally includes both very strong Spanish and indigenous influences as well as, to an extent, Caribbean influences.
Son jarocho ("Veracruz Sound") is a regional folk musical style of Mexican Son from Veracruz, a Mexican state along the Gulf of Mexico.It evolved over the last two and a half centuries along the coastal portions of southern Tamaulipas state and Veracruz state, hence the term jarocho, a colloquial term for people or things from the port city of Veracruz.
This is a list of the songs that reached number one in Mexico in 1987, according to the Notitas Musicales magazine with data provided by Radio Mil [1] (which also provided charts for Billboard's "Hits of the World" between 1969 and 1981). [2] Notitas Musicales was a bi-weekly magazine that published two record charts:
"La Llorona" (lit. "The weeping woman") is a Mexican folk song derived from the legend of La Llorona.There are many versions of the song. Its origins are obscure, but, around 1941, composer Andres Henestrosa mentioned hearing the song in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.