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.

I’m not familiar with orquesta music.

[bibliophage]

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

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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