The contemporary rural Mexico musical bands sound comes from Norteño music by way of Michoacan and Jalisco. Yet also the rich folk music tradition of this backcountry mountaneous state of Guerrero informs original compositions (ex. Modesta Ayala and many more folk classics). The Jaripeo is a most powerful influence on Guerrero banda music today. Jaripeos are the popular local musical bullriding events featuring young bullriders, fifteen piece brass band, cattle hands, rodeo announcer, dancing, clowns, families, kids, village officials, and drunks. Top Bandas in northern Guerrero are Autoridad de la Sierra, La Banda Dominguera, Los Indomables, Santa Cecilia, y La Rancherita de Tecalpulco. Typical professional local bands would be Santa Cecilia (Axixintla) and La Rancherita (Tecalpulco) In every town and city in Guerrero, musicians play professionally. An old blind fiddler led by a grandson, or a trio with two guitars and an accordion. The music coming up from the rocky valleys of mineral Guerrero deriving from Spanish ballads with a heavy frontier admixture. Still today rural musicians gather for all-night stylized musical jam sessions of “bolas” and “corridos”. These are both folk-verse renditions of traditional vocal and guitar expressions. The musical trios that proliferate in the streets and popular markets of Guerrero perform songs of venerable composition, performed by the people for the people in every little rancho and village.
“With both western and prehispanic musical heritage, emerges a sonorous phenomenon transcendental for America. This had and has a significance of great importance for the development of the villages. With the ferocious and pitiless conquest, takes place a combination of rape by force and home invasion generating new structures. In the case of band music, a group of instruments or a combination of metals, percussions, woods…” [1] “One of the most extended genres of America and especially in Mexico is the corrido; whats more it is the county where its diffusion reaches surprising ranges…” “In Guerrero and particularly in the zone of Zapatista influence, i.e. Michoacan, Morelos, State of Mexico, Puebla, Oaxaca, the corrido reaches creative dimensions without comparison in the Mexican popular lyric. Work that is awaiting the specialists.” [2] Both of the quotations are from “La música de Guerrero del surco a la guitarra, conjuration and memorial” (The music of Guerrero, from furrow to guitar, conjuration and memorial) by Isaias Alanís.
The real natural music coming out of the country.
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