music

**Music **  Mexico City has a wide range of popular musical genres Mexican music is usually influenced stylistically by indigenous and European music. Some of the most popular genres are Mariachi Banda and Norteno. Mexican style music places a large emphasis on authentic and original sounds, traditional instruments and telling stories within the lyrics of the songs. Banda was created in the 1800's with the intent ion of being similar to a military band. During the Mexican revolution bands were formed that would perform the polka sounding music in their town squares. Banda's popularity still remains more in the central to northern regions of Mexico and is ex <span style="color: rgb(163, 5, 5);"> tr emely popular in Mexico City. The styles of each band varies because <span style="color: rgb(153, 5, 5);"><span style="color: rgb(156, 7, 7);"><span style="color: rgb(9, 0, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(148, 5, 5);"> of th <span style="color: rgb(148, 5, 5);">e tuba and accordion player's style but many Spanish speakers claim they can identify what region a specific band is from just by listening to a few songs. As read in Mark Pedelty's text //Musical Ritual in Mexico City// The peak of Banda's international popularity was in the 1990's when Banda el Recodo was proclaimed the "mother of all bands." Norteno is another extremely popular style of music throughout Mexico; it combines an accordion and a bajo sexto as the lead instruments. Bohemian and Czech immigrants brought their style of music with <span style="color: rgb(148, 5, 5);">them to Mexico which combined with polka music to form the style now known as Norteno. In the 1910's to the 1920's artists from Mexico city would travel to San Antonio to record their songs in prominent studios in order to try to familiarize Americans with their new style of music which later helped to revolutionize the style of music media type="youtube" key="SSJLM34ttMY" height="344" width="425"

<span style="color: rgb(134, 3, 3);">Norteno singers that helped make the music become internationaly known.
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