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?

Continuation...

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.

PLEASE, PULSATES HERE AND LISTENS:
SON DE LA NEGRA with the Mariachi Vargas of Tecalitlan

Fountains:

Confers (notes of passbook)
Channel of the Mexican Music  ( http://www.youtube.com/user/solitariodark )