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Norteño or Norteña (Spanish pronunciation: [noɾˈteɲo], northern), also música norteña, is a subgenre of regional Mexican music. The music is most often based on duple and triple metre and its lyrics often deal with socially relevant topics, although there are also many norteño love songs.
Regional Mexican music refers collectively to the regional subgenres of the country music of Mexico and its derivatives from the Southwestern United States.Each subgenre is representative of a certain region and its popularity also varies by regions.
The history of norteña is in Chapter 2. The 1940s–1960s arrival of Mexicans into the United States and how that influenced the course of norteña is in Chapter 3. How post-1964 illegal immigration contributed to norteña and Ramón Ayala's role in the genre are documented in Chapter 4. Los Tigres del Norte is in Chapter 5. [5]
Oaxaca has a musical tradition/style known as Son istmeño , which is a continuation of the son folk tradition found throughout Mexico (as well as Cuba and Puerto Rico). Although many songs are translated and sung in Zapotec language as well; the rhythms and the basic melodic/harmonic structure are of Spanish origin.
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Some famous norteño-sax acts include Eulalio González "El Piporro", Lorenzo de Monteclaro, [3] Conjunto Primavera, [4] Los Rieleros del Norte, [5] Polo Urías y su Máquina Norteña, Kikín y Los Astros, [2] La Maquinaria Norteña, [6] La Fiera de Ojinaga, [7] La Energía Norteña, [8] Los Pescadores del Río Conchos, [9] La Zenda Norteña, [10] Los Primos del Este, among others.
Los Alegres de Terán were a Mexican Norteño band. They were formed in Nuevo León when Eugenio Abrego and Tomas Ortiz met in a club in the mid-1940s focusing their activities around the area of Monterrey, Reynosa, and finally settling in McAllen, Texas.
Mexican conjunto music, also known as conjunto tejano, was born in south Texas at the end of the 19th century, after German settlers introduced the button accordion.The bajo sexto has come to accompany the button accordion and is integral to the conjunto sound.