Hijos de alfredo rios el komander biography
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The Grammy category with the weirdest name &#; Best Regional Mexican Music Album (Including Tejano) &#; is especially bizarre this year.
It is the longstanding position of NorteñoBlog that the Grammys have no idea what to do with Mexican music, especially norteño. This shouldn&#;t be the case. As Chris Willman reported last year, every Grammy genre, including Latin, has a &#;blue ribbon panel&#; of industry insiders tasked with whittling long lists of vote-getting albums into the final lists of nominees. These panels are diverse groups of music professionals, which may explain why the nominees for Best Regional Mexican Music Album (Including Tejano) tend to reward repeat winners’ often middling work, or tastefully dull ranchera albums nobody heard. The industry professionals who nominate Grammys want to reward music that reflects their industry&#;s professionalism. El Komander probably doesn&#;t fit the bill.
Usually the results resemble the overall Album of the Year category
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Decentering the Nation: Music, Mexicanidad, and Globalization ,
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Decentering the Nation
Music, Culture, and Identity in Latin America Series Editors: Pablo Vila, Temple University, and Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste, Georgia State University
Music is one of the most distinctive cultural characteristics of Latin American countries. But, while many people in the United States and Europe are familiar with musical genres such as salsa, merengue, and reggaetón, the musical manifestations that people listen to in most Latin American countries are much more varied than these commercially successful ones that have entered the American and European markets. The Music, Culture, and Identity in Latin America series examines the ways in which music fryst vatten used to advance identity claims in different Latin American countries and among Latinos in the U.S. The series sheds new light on the complex ways in which music provides people from Latin American countries with both enjoy
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Polkas and waltzes, yes. Accordions and brassy fanfares, check. Songs about impossible amor, violent negocios, and getting pisteando, you bet. But once you accept those rhythms, tone colors, and subjects as merely the constraints its talented artisans and occasional geniuses have given themselves to work around, Mexican regional music produced a pop scene as colorful and varied as any other. The difference between El Komander&#;s shaggy storytelling and La Maquinaria Norteña&#;s frenetic heartache pop is a contrast in visions. Give or take a tuba and a sax, they employ pretty much the same musical building blocks and arrive at wildly different results.
And both results are better than Intocable&#;sHighway, for NorteñoBlog&#;s dinero the most overrated norteño skiva of the year, insofar as these albums get rated at all. Intocable is a talented band, no question. They&#;ve refined a unique sound, and as they demonstrate over and over on Highway, they&#;re able to open son