The mariachi music is a vibrant, animated and popular tradition. Their roots go back to the regions of the southwest of Mexico. The typical sound of the Mariachi is created by a series of different instruments. The majority of sets of Mariachi has several violins, one or several trompetas, and at least three types of mariachi guitars: a classic guitar, guitarrn (great guitar under hearing aid) and one vihuela (of five cords, rythmical guitar of high tone). The Mariachis have become an emblem of Mexican pride by means of the incorporation of regional forms of song of all the regions of Mexico. Although new music does not include much to the Mariachis, the mariachi groups frequently are contracted to act in social events to give serenades.
The original film (the Mariachi, 1992) was filmed with a small budget, but their two sequels (Desperado and rase once in Mexico) were produced by Columbia Pictures with the co-participation of some of great stars of Hollywood. Mariachi is interpreted by Antonio Flags, and the list includes Salma Hayek, Johnny Depp, Willem Dafoe, Eva Mendes, Mickey Rourke and Cheech Marin. ” It is not country for viejos” , of Joel and Ethan Cohen it was a winning film of an Oscar in 2007. In that film, the protagonist Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) after a shooting is seriously wounded in a Mexican border city, and is taken to the hospital by a group of mariachis. This new exhibition in popular means must increase brings back to consciousness of the Mariachi in the EE.UU and takes to an increasing popularity of the mariachi and other types of Mexican music. The Mariachi continues being very popular in all Mexico and the United States. In the EE.UU., the mariachi is more frequent in those cities with greater concentration of population Mexico-American like Los Angeles, San Diego, Cut with a scythe.
Worth, San Antonio, Denver, Seattle, Chicago, Phoenix, Santa Fe, New York and San Francisco. The professional groups of Mariachi are contracted to touch in the special meetings, and also they are coveted to do appearances in films and recordings of popular singers, and also are very popular to give a serenade with mariachi in the special dates like the birthdays. According to the Office of the Census of the EE.UU, the Hispanics they are I generate ethnic of greater growth in the American population, and half of the Hispanic-Americans almost is of Mexican origin. With this fast increase of the population Mexican-American, also it must have a greater demand of the groups of Mariachi and for the guitars of mariachi. Juan White Camilo What is a mariachi?