ranchera
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Ranchera () or canción ranchera is a genre of traditional music of Mexico. It dates to before the years of the Mexican Revolution. Rancheras today are played in the vast majority of regional Mexican music styles. Drawing on rural traditional folk music, the ranchera developed as a symbol of a new national consciousness in reaction to the aristocratic tastes of the period.
Key facts
- Music genre.name
- Ranchera
- Music genre.stylistic_origins
- Corrido, Walz
- Music genre.cultural_origins
- Mexico
- Music genre.derivatives
- Ranchera walz, Bolero ranchero, Marcha ranchera
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- inception
- 1930-01-01
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Ranchera () or canción ranchera is a genre of traditional music of Mexico. It dates to before the years of the Mexican Revolution. Rancheras today are played in the vast majority of regional Mexican music styles. Drawing on rural traditional folk music, the ranchera developed as a symbol of a new national consciousness in reaction to the aristocratic tastes of the period.
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