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1. Mexico by The music of Mexico is diverse and features a wide range of different musical styles. Many traditional Mexican songs are well-known worldwide, although most of the time their origin in Mexico is not so clear to the non-Mexican listener. SAM KORNBLAU, BRIAN VERWORT, BRANDON CUENCA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Mexico

2. The term mariachi derives from the Nahuatl and Coca languages—two of the native languages of Mexico. Originally, mariachi referred to a social event involving dancers who performed on a wooden platform, similar to the Spanish fandango. Today mariachi refers to a kind of music as well as the ensemble that plays it.The mariachi ensemble and mariachi music originated in the Jalisco region and surrounding states of western Mexico, especially the city of Guadalajara. A traditional mariachi included primarily string instruments, such as guitars; a large bass guitar called a guitarrón; a folk harp with 28–40 strings; violins; a flat-backed, five-string guitar; and vihuelas (guitars with round backs). In the Zacatecas and Los Altos regions of Mexico, a bass drum or snare drum was sometimes added to the group. Before cars, mariachi bands traveled from town to town by walking or by train, mule, or horse. MEXICAN MARIACHI INSTRUMENTS Guitarron http://www.sbgmusic.com/html/teacher/reference/cultures/mariachi.html

3. INTRESTING FACTS ABOUT MEXICO The United Mexican States or commonly Mexico (Spanish: México is a country located in North America. It is bounded on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the North Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico.[2][3] The United Mexican States comprise a constitutional republican federation of thirty-one states and a federal district, the capital Mexico City, which is one of the most populous cities on Earth. Covering almost 2 million square kilometers,[4] Mexico is the fifth-largest country in the Americas by total area and the 14th largest in the world. With a population of 109 million, it is the 11th most populous country and the most populous Spanish-speaking country in the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico

4. MEXICO HISTORY At least three great civilizations—the Mayas, the Olmecs, and later the Toltecs—preceded the wealthy Aztec empire, conquered in 1519–1521 by the Spanish under Hernando Cortés. Spain ruled Mexico as part of the viceroyalty of New Spain for the next 300 years until Sept. 16, 1810, when the Mexicans first revolted. They won independence in 1821. From 1821 to 1877, there were two emperors, several dictators, and enough presidents and provisional executives to make a new government on the average of every nine months. Mexico lost Texas (1836), and after defeat in the war with the U.S. (1846–1848), it lost the area that is now California, Nevada, and Utah, most of Arizona and New Mexico, and parts of Wyoming and Colorado under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. In 1855, the Indian patriot Benito Juárez began a series of reforms, including the disestablishment of the Catholic Church, which owned vast property. The subsequent civil war was interrupted by the French invasion of Mexico (1861) and the crowning of Maximilian of Austria as emperor (1864). He was overthrown and executed by forces under Juárez, who again became president in 1867. The years after the fall of the dictator Porfirio Diaz (1877–1880 and 1884–1911) were marked by bloody political-military strife and trouble with the U.S., culminating in the punitive U.S. expedition into northern Mexico (1916–1917) in unsuccessful pursuit of the revolutionary Pancho Villa. Since a brief civil war in 1920, Mexico has enjoyed a period of gradual agricultural, political, and social reforms. The Partido Nacional Revolucionario (PNR; National Revolutionary Party), dominated by revolutionary and reformist politicians from northern Mexico, was established in 1929; it continued to control Mexico throughout the 20th century and was renamed the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI; Institutional Revolutionary Party) in 1946.

5. TYPES OF MEXICAN MUSIC Rumba Rumba came from the black Mexican slaves in Veracruz, Mexico city, and Yucatan, these were originated first from Cuba that later became famous in the black Hispanic community of Mexico like la bamba a song originated from afro-Mexicans from a tribe called bamba,these songs are mostly popular in the south of Mexico. Ruperas Ruperas are the mixed sound of rumba and ranchera music mostly heard in the mid south of Mexico this music contains both rumba rhythms and ranchera rhythms which these are mostly heard at parties,clubs,and Mexican radio. Danzon The European influence on Cuba's later musical development is most influentially represented by danzón, which is an elegant dance that became established in Cuba before being exported to popular acclaim throughout Latin America, especially Mexico. Its roots lay in European social dances like the English country dance, French contredanse and Spanish contradanza. Danzon developed in the 1870s in the region of Matanzas, where African culture remained strong. It had developed in full by 1879 and later was brought to Mexico.

6. origins of mexican music http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Mexico Origins Before the introduction of accordion and bajo sexto, and before the Mexican-American War, violin was the main instrument for the popular music played in northern New Spain[1].[2] Early northern music was played during fiestas, then called fandangos, and it was mostly played to dance. There are few surviving recordings of this type of music[3]. One lesser known genre of pre-accordion Northern music of this era is the a capella Canto Cardenche, surviving only in southwestern Coahuila[4]. During the late XIX century, Bohemian and Chech migrants to Northern Mexico and the U.S. Southwest brought different styles among them: la redova[5], la varsoviana[6] and the polka. These German immigrants fueled the demand for a local brewing industry, and they also influenced the music scene by bringing the accordion and the polka rhythm, which were part of the popular music of their homeland. Soon, local bands adopted these elements, and a new unique style gradually resulted from a blend with Mexican ranchera styles. This new style soon became a unique norteño genre, thus named because it was primarily popular in the northern regions of Mexico.

7. MEXICAN PICTURE PHOTO GALLARY El Día del Charro SEASCAPES OF CABO SAN LUCAS http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/travel/twhitehead/saltillomuseum/page/image1.html Museum

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