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Historical and cultural context helps explain why music is performed, recorded, distributed, or remembered in particular ways. Religious celebrations, social change, institutions, working life, and communication media can influence repertory and reception. This section gathers categories describing those circumstances without replacing the specific evidence attached to each record. A recording may relate to several contexts at once, and interpretations of its meaning can change over time. Dates, testimonies, and editorial notes can help place it more precisely.

Music Among the Chichimecas, part of the Cenzontle series published by the Instituto Nacional Indigenista (INI), brings together field recordings documenting the musical traditions of the Chichimeca people of San

Lani Zaachilla Yoo (Celebration in the House of Zaachila) brings together the music of Banda Baalachi, “The Joy of the Valley,” across three records. Recorded in 1990 and released in

Vinyl, LP, Album SOUNDS OF MEXICO ANTHOLOGY. The son is a musical genre that serves to accompany the most energetic and brilliant dances that are part of more extensive repertoires,

This record documents the rich musical heritage of the Nahua community of Xalatlaco, State of Mexico, where music and dance are an essential part of collective life and religious celebrations.

Vinyl, LP, Album. ZAPATISTA CORRIDOS. We can consider the corrido as one of the first-hand historical sources that the state of Morelos has to understand Zapatismo. Its birth is necessarily

Vinyl, LP, Album CORRIDOS DE LA REBELION CRISTERA. After the Revolution, it was the Cristero movement that produced a greater number of poetic and musical manifestations, both popular and cult.

Vinyl, LP, Album TLAYACAPAN BAND. The celebration of carnival in the region is characterized by the participation of groups of dancers called chinelos, who walk the streets of the towns

Vinyl, LP, Album NORTHWEST INDIGENOUS MUSIC. Within the so-called Northwest of Mexico, two groups stand out, the Yaqui and the Mayo. The traditional musical genres are the same for both

Vinyl, LP, Album HUASTEC MUSIC. The area -the Huasteca- includes part of the states of Hidalgo, San Luis Potosí, Veracruz, Tamaulipas, Puebla and Querétaro. It does not have precise limits

Vinyl, LP, Album DANCES OF THE CONQUEST. The album has two parts: one dedicated to the traditional music of contemporary indigenous cultures and the other to the heritage of mestizo

Vinyl, LP, Album MUSICAL TESTIMONY OF MEXICO. The album has two parts: one dedicated to the traditional music of contemporary indigenous cultures and the other to the heritage of mestizo

Julián Carrillo's work greatly exceeds what is presented in this collection. Three classical symphonies, three in sixteenths of tones, five symphonic poems, several Masses, a Requiem, three Operas and numerous compositions chamber

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