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  2. Music of Mexico - Wikipedia

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    Younger Mexican composers emerged, including Carlos Chávez, Silvestre Revueltas, and Luis Sandi, who developed Mexican "art music." Chávez was a prolific composer and one who embraced creating Mexican orchestral music drawing on revolutionary corridos, and composed an Aztec-themed ballet. He became the director of the National Conservatory of ...

  3. Mexican folk dance - Wikipedia

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    Folk dance of Mexico, [1] commonly known as baile folklorico or Mexican ballet folk dance, is a term used to collectively describe traditional Mexican folk dances. Ballet folklórico is not just one type of dance; it encompasses each region's traditional dance that has been influenced by their local folklore and has been entwined with ballet ...

  4. Jarabe Tapatío - Wikipedia

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    The standard music of the jarabe tapatío was composed by Jesús González Rubio in the 19th century. However, its more common instrumental arrangement dates from the 1920s. [5] Sometimes it is confused with La Raspa, another Mexican dance. Nowadays, its music is most commonly performed by either mariachi groups or string ensembles.

  5. Concheros - Wikipedia

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    Altar area at Asbaje Park in Tlalpan, Mexico City. While the dance contains a number of highly visual markers of its pre Hispanic roots, it is not strictly indigenous. [2] [3] The dance, with its variations, is a multilayered phenomenon with both religious, cultural and political meanings, depending on the people involved. Most in Mexico who ...

  6. Son mexicano - Wikipedia

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    The term "son" is given to a category of Mexican folk music which covers a variety of styles that vary by region. However, these styles share a number of common characteristics in its rhythms, lyrics and dance. [1] The music is a mix of Spanish, African and indigenous elements, which mingled at least as far back as the 18th century. [1]

  7. Hispanic Heritage: Dancers honor their Mexican heritage ... - AOL

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    Whether it’s the dance or the music, there is a meaning behind it. Amalia Hernadez popularized the dance baile folklorico in Mexico City more than 60 years ago. Now, it’s performed around the ...

  8. Norteño (music) - Wikipedia

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    Norteño music developed from a blending of Mexican and Spanish oral and musical traditions, military brass band instrumentation, and European musical styles such as polka and waltz. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] European immigrants from Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia to northern Mexico and the southwestern United States also brought dance traditions such ...

  9. Son jarocho - Wikipedia

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    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.