ETHNOMUS 108B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Concheros, Son Mexicano, Indigenismo
13 Dec 2016
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Lecture 8 04/26/2016
● Proposal: paragraph in length
Mexico: Intro to música mestiza (Mestizo music)
Mexico: Country Overview
● Mexico
● Latin America and North America
● Over 120 million people
○ Largest Spanish-speaking population in the world
● 68 officially recognized indigenous languages
○ Within each language there are various dialects
What We’ve Studied so Far
● Indigenous
○ Aztec/Mexica music
○ Danza Azteca/ Concheros
○ Wixarika (Huichol) traditional music
● European/Spanish
○ Early colonial music: polyphonic church singing
○ Song forms: villancio and romance (precursor to corrido)
● African
○ Polymeter and time line patterns
○ Marimba
Mexico: Time Periods
1) Pre-Encounter era (before 1521)
2) Colonial Period (1521-1810)
a) Spain seen as source and or model
b) War for independence begun in 1810
3) Independence Period (1810=1910)
a) Still Europe-oriented but
b) Reevaluation of Mestizo music as part of national ID
c) Mexican Revolution begun in 1910
4) 20th Century (after 1910)
a) Collection of “folk” music/ dances for national codification/staging
b) Indianist (indigenismo) movement in art music composition
c) Influence of mass media and faster transport
A note on “genre”
● Genre: categorization based on similarities of forms, traits, subject matter
● Can refer to “song genre” or “instrumental genre”
○ music/songs not exclusive to certain instrumentations
○ One exception is
Son mexicano (Mexican son)
● The main example of musica mestiza (mestizo music)
● Refers usually both to “musical genre” and “instrumental genre”
● Spanish influences
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Document Summary
Within each language there are various dialects. Song forms: villancio and romance (precursor to corrido) Genre: categorization based on similarities of forms, traits, subject matter. Can refer to song genre or instrumental genre . The main example of musica mestiza (mestizo music) Refers usually both to musical genre and instrumental genre . Primarily performed in small ensembles of string instruments. Alternating colpas (lyrical form) and instrumental sections. Musicians primarily men, but some women (esp. in family groups) Family in the plaza playing songs with young children. According to sheehy: performed at special life-cycle events. Complicated now because music is now staged/folklorized/ specifically choreographed. The site of yanga"s palenque (runaway slave settlement) 6 strings and then top and bottom single strings. Requinto jarocho: carries the melody, does improvisation, clocked. Beginning instrument in hermanos ochoa and jose gutierrez video. Different sizes of jarana, a whole family of them. Tarima: slightly raised platform that amplifies the sounds of the dancers" percussive steps.
