Introduction to Mexican Music
Conjunto Jarocho Music Conjunto or Son Jarocho is a regional folk musical style of Mexican Son from Veracruz, a Mexican state along the Gulf of Mexico. It evolved over the last two and a half centuries along the coastal portions of southern Tamaulipas state and Veracruz state, hence the term jarocho, a colloquial term for people or things from the port city of Veracruz.Conjunto Jarocho Instruments
Conjunto Jarocho music is native to the region of Mexico that include Veracruz, Tabasco, Yucatan, and Campeche. Since this is a region with a strong African cultural influence the Jarocho has African singing characteristics such as short choral responses to a lead singer, slurring or bending of the notes in characteristic intervals in the scale, and a sarcastic, irreverent attitude developed among a people who asserted themselves despite being outside the framework of the Indian and Spanish societies. Indian influence is evidenced in the frequent use of animals given human characteristics (the iguana, the parrot, the bull, the hawk, the dove), marked/staccato eighth-note rhythm repetitions, and some aspects of the singing style. Famous Conjunto Jarocho Groups
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