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titusnowlI like listening to some of the Mexican radio stations. They abound down here, you know. Most of them play this particular style that has a definite "mariachi" feel to it, with horns and oom-pah and guitar. A couple of them play your standard alternative rock, just in Spanish, which I find relatively boring.
Most of the English radio stations around here play country music. A few play alternative rock and then of course you have your oldies, but literally two-thirds of the stations I hear when I hit "scan" are country.
Which illustrates the point. The sort of Mexican music I like is apparently Mexico's version of country music. It is most popular in the rural, agricultural areas of the country - which happens to be in the north. The style of music is therefore known as nortero.
In America, country music is most popular in the rural, agricultural areas of the country - which happen to be in the south. Country music could be (and has been) just as accurately summed up as southern music.
Right in the middle, where Mexico's north and America's south meet, where the radio stations play both country and nortero... there's Texas.
Texas is obviously the center of all things country.
Most of the English radio stations around here play country music. A few play alternative rock and then of course you have your oldies, but literally two-thirds of the stations I hear when I hit "scan" are country.
Which illustrates the point. The sort of Mexican music I like is apparently Mexico's version of country music. It is most popular in the rural, agricultural areas of the country - which happens to be in the north. The style of music is therefore known as nortero.
In America, country music is most popular in the rural, agricultural areas of the country - which happen to be in the south. Country music could be (and has been) just as accurately summed up as southern music.
Right in the middle, where Mexico's north and America's south meet, where the radio stations play both country and nortero... there's Texas.
Texas is obviously the center of all things country.
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Date: 2005-01-08 07:35 pm (UTC)In San Luis, I heard a lot of their "country" music but I was amused to hear a lot of Mexican rap, too. Very interesting.
It's funny that I just wrote a post about being a hick, and then I refresh and our posts are side by side, haha.