More on the German influence in Mexican music
Tuesday December 9, 2003
A reader of this site recently commented on an article that explained the connection between some types of traditional German and Mexican music. Here's what he had to say:
I subscribed to your newsletter and like reading the articles. They are fun. But some of them are really more street legends than real. Like "why some Mexican music resembles German music." That's more of a Polish influence further south of the border. Every Mexican kid learns that when attending Educación Artística in any public secondary school. Mr. Hitler also helped by giving Mexico a gift of many samples of a musical instrument called cilindro. In Mexico City there are cilindreros in plazas and parks.Read the original article...
But polkas in the north of Mexico didn't necessarily come to Mexico via Texas. And Texas in 1830 was part of Mexico, and the Río Grande wasn't the border between Texas and Coahuila during that period. It was further north also. Río Grande finally became a border about 1850s, I think. And Río Nueces was the border before, of course, the border moving further south each time.
Comments
thank you, to both articles. Nobody seemed to know
or even care when I asked about the infuence of the
tuba in Mexican music. And I didn’t even think about the accordion. I assumed it was around that time frame, but never got a straight answer. So thanks again