Mexican Music

Mexican Music posts cover several traditions. Articles look at the mariachi tradition rooted in Jalisco with its trumpets, violins and vihuela, the ranchera songs of Vicente Fernandez and Antonio Aguilar, the norteno conjunto sound from the Tex-Mex border with its accordion and bajo sexto, the cumbia variants common across the country, the romantic boleros of Agustin Lara, the modern banda of Sinaloa, the long-running son jarocho of Veracruz and the contemporary regional scene led by labels in Monterrey. There are also short notes on the corrido tradition and on the controversy around narcocorridos.