THE MARIACHI, Culture of Mexico

By Gabriela Cecilia López Alvarado

 Laura Alejandra López Alvarado

There was carried out the last one of the cycle of conferences of 2009 that organized the H. Zihuatanejo de Azueta's town hall in the Hotel Barceló this November 06 of the year in process at 19:00 o’clock. In this occasion the topic of the magisterial conference was The Mariachi for the investigator of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), the Anthropologist, Dr. Jesus Jáuregui who gave his conference accompanied of live music with a local mariachi.

After been presented credit he initiated his conference speaking about the importance of the mariachi in the musical Mexican culture but beyond the musical thing, the process of social development and to develop historically of Mexico might explain without the mariachi and his musical genre.

Breaking with the usual scheme of the conferences, after this brief explanation, he went to the public and invited them to take part in a session of questions and answers.

The public assistant expressed some questions as: How did it be that the mariachi originated?, in what moment does woman join the mariachi?, wherefrom does the gown of the mariachi come?, Jalisco or Cocula?, how many persons agreed to the mariachi in a beginning?, in what type of social class do I develop? And, which is the etymology of the mariachi?

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Aniela Arzate Castelán, Gabriela Cecilia López Alvarado, Laura Alejandra López Alvarado, students of the Preparatory of the Institute Lizardi-UNAM, and the Lic. Rodrigo Campos Amaro accompanied by the prestigious lecturer, anthropologist, Dr . Jesus Jáuregui.

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SON DE LA NEGRA with the Mariachi Vargas of Tecalitlan

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ALTAR OF DEAD IN ZIHUATANEJO

By Rosa Elena Alvarado and

Laura Alejandra López Alvarado

"Now near centenary of the Mexican revolution it is more than indispensable to remember the heroes who allowed that ideal this one should turn a fact, a fact that mark the Mexican history. Those who dedicated life and work to liberating the Mexican people. That better way of honoring the fallen in the Mexican Revolution, more than with a Tzompantli a native tradition of the mexicas; an altar where there were placed the crania of the sacrificed ones, generally captive of war, in order to honor his gods, and it was the most evident manifestation of the political-religious control. The Mexican Revolution as the Tzompantlis it has as purpose demonstrate the supreme authority, the last word. This way in the Mexican revolution there is recaptured the control of our lands and of our freedom, same that had been it snatches years behind. In this offering also a return is tried to our roots to remember and especially to admire the big battles that had to be freed to achieve the Mexico of today."

This one was the argument with which the group of students of the Preparatory of the Institute Lizardi-UNAM, shaped by Laura Alejandra Lopez Alvarado, Aniela M. Arzate Castelán, Gabriela Cecilia Lopez Alvarado, K. Ximena Niño de Rivera Burgueño, Darlene Vanessa Siécola Rangel and Alfonso Duarte Sanchez (dressed misses of adelitas and he guerrillero) was giving the welcome to the visitors who with interest were approaching to observe the offering that were exposing, answering to a summons on the occasion of the celebration in Mexico of Day of Dead.

Exactly to promote this tradition that has been a part of the Mexican culture, the H. Ayuntamiento Municipal de Zihuatanejo de Azueta town hall called for all the preparatory ones of the municipality to taking part in a contest of Altars that would be carried out these Tuesday, the 02nd of November of the year in process, in the kiosk of the square that is located in the former facilities of the local government.

The only school that answered to these summons registering and taking part it was the Preparatory one of the Institute Lizardi assigned to the UNAM across the group of 5to Semester who elaborated an altar inspired by the Tzomplanti representing with this work worth to your school to which a special recognition was granted across of the director, Lic. Leticia Gómez Vaillard. The Group of students was advised by Paola Uribe Gaudry and Cristóbal Cortés Eslava, both teachers of this educational institute.

There was very interesting the work of the Institute Lizardi and a sorrow it was worth being going to the socle to observe and interacting with the students, but the lack of participation on the part of other schools allowed a rare sensation and many questions before the almost void response to a summons that was waited out very crowded.