Mexico, the United States and Mariachi music: A look at its past, present and future
Linda Fregoso speaks with various people attending the International Mariachi Conference in San Antonio about the development of mariachi music in the United States and its relations with Mexican mariachi music. Fregoso first interviews Gail San Miguel, the national coordinator of the conference. San Miguel discusses the popularity of mariachi music with the younger generation of Chicanos. She explains that for Chicano youth, Mariachi music represents a link to their past and bridges the gap between them and their parents and grandparents. She then discusses the organization of the conference and its mission to provide a place where teachers and musicians can exchange ideas and techniques. The conference hosted a series of workshops with Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan and Fregoso next speaks with the group’s spokesman Heriberto Molina about Mariachi music’s growing popularity in the United States and Mexico.
Fregoso then discusses the role of women in mariachi music, and she speaks with Florencia Gutierrez a lady mariachi about her experiences. Fregoso also speaks briefly with Claudia Zapata about learning from the Mariachi Vargas. Fregoso concludes with another brief conversation with Molina who says that he is pleased to see women playing Mariachi music and excited about the general passion for the music he has seen in the United States.
KEYWORDS
CalPoly MariachiCancion Mixteca
Chicano Music
Chicano Youth
Claudia Zapata
Commercialization
Commodification
Consumer Culture
Cultural Appropriation
Cultural Revival
Daniel Sheehy
Florencia Gutierrez
Gail San Miguel
Gender
Guitarron
Heriberto Molina
High School Mariachis
Juan Ortiz
Mariachi
Mariachi Music in Mexico
Mariachi Music in the United States
Mariachi Uniform
Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan
Mark Fogelquist
Mexican Music
Music
National Endowment for the Arts
Popular Culture
San Antonio Independent School District
San Antonio, Texas
Symphony
Texas A and I
Tourism
Transnationalism
UCLA
University Mariachis
Vihuela
Violin
Youth Culture