Music history of Mexico

Mary's instant research into music history of Mexico in early 1900's:

http://folkloricomusicdance.blogspot.com/
Arriba! Folklorico Music and Dance of Mexico

http://emedia.leeward.hawaii.edu/frary/social_envir_mex.htm
Socio-Cultural Environment of Post-Revolutionary Mexico, by Peter Kun Frary, professor of music

http://news-service.stanford.edu/pr/97/971105remakemex.html
"new views of 20th-century mexico to be explored Nov 13-15 conference - from like 19997. names some people & resources"

3-5 p.m.: Panel on Popular Culture/Mass Audiences I: Music and Dance. Maria Herrera-Sobek, UC-Santa Barbara, "Construction of Nation, Nationality and Ethnicity in the Mexican Corridor: 1910-1945"; Jesus Flores y Escalante, dance historian, "Dance Halls in Mexico City"; and Russel Rodriguez, Stanford and Santa Clara universities, "The cultural poetics and politics of contemporary Mariachis."

"A dance historian will talk about the history of dance halls, and another speaker will discuss how mariachi, a regional music, became a national music. "

http://parlorsongs.com/issues/2004-5/thismonth/feature.php
Parlor songs - a web site about tin pan alley music. This page is about US Music ABOUT Mexico - you are going to love this one - it has the sheet music AND midi files for like 15 songs which contain the 'idea' of mexico held by american songwriters at that time

* La Media Noche is really good

* Lyrics to Sombrero Land

Silently hiding, silently sliding down to his arms,
Two lips caress, with kisses impress her heart in their charms;
Thru gardens groping, They go eloping, silently flee,
As once more to her, he tenderly hums his plea.

* Lyrics to "Sombrero" Mary Wisnewski

[Verse 1]
Way down by the Silv'ry Rio Grande,
There lives Sombrero, A cowboy brave,
Far out in that golden prairie land,
He rides where pampa's plumes serenely wave,

With jingling spurs he comes to town,
Wherein the plaza's shade, each lovely maid,
With soulful glance from eyes of brown,
to win his heart so true and strong will sing this song.

[Chorus]
Sombrero, Sombrero won't you greet
a Senorita Say we'll never part,
Sombrero, Sombrero truly you have
"rounded up" my heart.

[Verse 2]
All day as he gaily rides the range,
Sombrero's dreaming of maidens dear,
Night comes ev'ry dream so fair and strange,
Comes true where mandolins are sounding clear,

And when the dance ends all too soon,
A cigarette he rolls, and slowly strolls,
Beneath the golden southern moon
To hear this song from some sweet girl with heart awhirl.

http://latinmusic.about.com/od/countrie1/p/PRO18BASICS.htm
An overview of mexican popular music from About .com: discusses some early 20th century music + 1800's music as well as more modern stuff