ANTH 204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Mariachi, Dance Pad, Strum
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Regional folk music styles: mariachi (jalisco and guadalajara). Early mariachi: regional music from jalisco (western mexico). Roving laborers (cowboys moving from ranch to ranch) in late. Rural dances (zapateados) and celebrations (births, baptisms, and weddings). Not widely known or clearly defined before early 1900"s. Mariachi was term for musical celebration, dance platform, music and musicians from jalisco. Traditional mariachi music and repertoire: dance music (sones and jarabes) for percussive, theatrical dances. Traditional mariachi instrumentation: violin and harp (play melody), guitarra de golpe and vihuela (five-string guitars that strum chords), and guitarron (bass guitar). First recordings by cuarteto coculense in mexico city (1907). Mariachi coculanse appeared in stage shows and movies in mexico city (1920"s). Mariachi music in first mexican sound film santa (1931). Musica ranchera and charros : mariachi bands in cowboy films (charros) with popular actor- singers (jorge negrete and pedro infante). Appealed to rural migrants in urban areas (mexico.
