Mexican Music - a question

[chefIL11]

What instruments are usually associated with conjunto music?

How about Orquesta music?

Ethnically and in terms of economic class identity... how are these different or similar?

Thanks a lot,

JT

[Earthling]

Most fundamentally, conjunto music is performed with an accordion and a bajo sexto (a twelve-stringed bass guitar). In more modern times, electric bass and drums are also included. See Conjunto 101 (http://www-class.unl.edu/adrp/tejeda/conjunto.101.html).

I'm not familiar with orquesta music.

[bibliophage]

Since this is about music, I'll move the thread to Cafe Society.

bibliophage
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[twickster]

Homework assignment, jt? :dubious:

[Spram da man]

I was watching a documentary about a German filmmaker and saw a group of Germans (about 1940's, before Hitler came to power) playing music that sounded almost like Mariachi music. What?

Anyway, where does Mariachi music come from?

[cornflakes]

Germans and Czechs emigrated to what is now Texas and Northern Mexico in the Eighteenth Century; Mexico encouraged them to help settle their frontier. Norteño and conjunto music are based on their polkas and schottisches.

[cornflakes]

Also, Earthling's link claims:
Mexico, like most of the western world, was swept by a wave of popular music --essentially the salon music or musica de baile--that included polkas from Germany and Poland, waltzes of the famed Austrian composers, redovas and schottisches, occasional quadrilles and even minuets.

These forms were easily absorbed by the already musically-inclined Mexican culture and the process of Mexicanizing them began immediately. The huapango (huasteca in origin) and the canción ranchera were modified into the hodge-podge of this música de baile.

[The Batman]

Anyway, where does Mariachi music come from?

Mariachi Music comes from the state of Jalisco in Mexico