Norteño Accordion Sound
The sound of the accordion in Norteño music accompanies songs from an ample repertoire. Rancheras, corridos, baladas, polkas, cumbias, huapangos, and chotis all...
Tag: mexico
Enduring Analog Printing Presses
The sound of the printing press was what at first called my attention. We were walking nearby the Plaza Santo Domingo in Mexico City downtown when a percussive ...
Informal Photo-Booths in the Age of Digital Reproduction
Regardless of the massive adoption of digital cameras and other mobile devices capable of recording images and of the massification of amateur photography, the ...
Mexico City as a Sensorial Kaleidoscope: Exploring Movable Urban Layers
More than eleven years took me to come back to Mexico City, Distrito Federal (DF). The return has surprised me as much as it happened the first time I landed in...
Cuuuuuuuuuumbia Digital: Transnational Cumbia, Deejay Culture and Digital Technology
The journey of cumbia, a rhythm from the Caribbean coast of Colombia, across the Americas is an interesting example of the power of Caribbean music to transcend...
A Man as a Caricature: Cheech Marin
Today i went to a special event organized by the center for mexican american studies that featured the film screening of Born in East L.A and a talk with direct...
Seeing Comala in the Big Screen
The first time i encountered an image of Comala was in the written words of Juan Rulfo’s master piece Pedro Paramo (1955). I was fascinated by the poetica...