Tarascan and Other Music of Mexico: Songs and Dances of the Mexican Plateau

Tarascan and Other Music of Mexico: Songs and Dances of the Mexican Plateau

(Folkways Records, 1958), 44 mins

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Field of Interest
World Music
Description
"The songs and dances heard today in Mexico are a complex mixture, with their origins in both indigenous and European music. That music was a vigorous art prior to the arrival of the Spaniards may be inferred from the impressive collections of pre-Columbian musical instruments to be seen in museums throughout the world. Music held a far more important place in ancient Mexico than in many contemporaneous cultures in other parts of the world..."

Charles M. Bogert and Martha R. Bogert


"Las canciones y las danzas que se escuchan hoy en México son una compleja combinación, cuyos orígenes se remontan tanto a la música indígena como a la europea. Que la música era un arte vigoroso antes de la llegada de los españoles es algo puede ser deducido a partir de las impresionantes colecciones de instrumentos musicales precolombinos que se pueden ver en varios museos alrededor del mundo. La música gozaba de un lugar más importante en el antiguo México del que ocupaba en otras culturas contemporáneas en diversas partes del mundo..."

Charles M. Bogert y Martha R. Bogert


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Content Type
Music recording
Duration
44 mins
Format
Audio
Sub Genre
Latin, Canción
Label
Folkways Records
Release Date
1958
Subject
World Music, Music & Performing Arts, South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, América del Sud, México, Centroamérica y el Caribe, América do Sul, México, América Central e Caribe, Mexico
Keywords and Translated Subjects
América del Sud, México, Centroamérica y el Caribe, América do Sul, México, América Central e Caribe

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