More Mexican music!

There's a lot of great Mexican traditional music we haven't been able to listen to in this class either for lack of time or because of lack of connection with our topics of discussion. However, you might want to give it a listen anyway!

Here is some huapango, also known as son huasteco, from the northeastern Huasteca region that borders on Texas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84RnhMXwYJM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjVZA6JKFos

Banda is one of the most popular Mexican regional musics and a top seller in the US Latin music market. Banda El Recodo is one of the oldest and best known bandas from Sinaloa but has lately been going in new, more "pop" directions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttDJo9V2vFc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZL5qU5xj68

We did listen to a bit of son jarocho. There are also a number of musicians in the Mexican Caribbean region and in California who are making jarocho fusion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbUoRcRiuqw

We heard some harp music from the Mayan peoples of Chiapas, but different kinds of folk harps are found all over Mexico.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fre6W1_EHa0

We talked about the popularization of cumbia, which even the Zapatistas are singing. Cumbia also figures into some "regional urban" styles, like that of the Kumbia Kings:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuEuysP8B9Q

Probably the most popular way to consume corridos in Mexico (and in New York!) is in a baile sonidero, where the focus is on the deejay, or sonidero, and his use of technology. You'll also see some interesting ways of dancing cumbia.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0jD-iuxieA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMN00U3ZKog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is8TaM_a8OE

More quebradita dancing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLPOuv9Lrus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlWO4RnbW_c

I mentioned Nor-Tec, the Tijuana-based arts collective that combines electronica with Norteno sounds. You're going to love it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7EoalpcqRg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y73Vi-0t1HE

Here is an example of how some musicians imagine pre-Columbian Aztec music might have sounded:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWi2dJk-4SU

Concheros dance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k24HZqp8hVg

And compare that with danza azteca:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRIHFIxzS7Q

More indigenous Mexican dance and music, these from the P'urhepecha people of Michoacan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yDmlwzY4_s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b3GyPhUWxo

Enjoy!