Ranchera music

Ranchera is a Latin music genre. Ranchera is usually sung by one or more people with a guitar. It is popularized in Mexico. This type of music can be traced back to the Mexican Revolution. It is also similar to Mariachi music.

Ranchera
Stylistic origins	Mariachi
Cultural origins	México
Typical instruments	Guitar, Vihuela, Trumpet, Violin, Guitarrón
Subgenres
bolero ranchero, corrido, Narcocorrido
Other topics
Charro - Jarabe tapatío (also the name of a song) - Zapateado - Son Huasteco - Huapango - Mexican pop

Ranchera singers

Miguel Aceves Mejía Antonio Aguilar Pepe Aguilar Lola Beltrán Rocío Dúrcal Alejandro Fernández Pedro Fernández Vicente Fernández Pedro Infante José Alfredo Jiménez

Lorenzo de Monteclaro Jorge Negrete Lucha Reyes Cuco Sánchez Javier Solís Chavela Vargas Lucha Villa Yolanda Del Rio Aida Cuevas Selena

References

• Brenner, H. (1996). Música ranchera. Das mexikanische Äquivalent zur Country and Western Music aus historischer, musikalischer und kommerzieller Sicht (Música ranchera: El equivalente mexicano de la música country y la música del Oeste) (Musikethnologische Sammelbände 14). Foreword by Thomas Stanford. Tutzing: Verlag Hans Schneider, 1996 [ISBN 3-7952-0867-X].den suger balle

Other websites

• Rancheras Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine - music
• Musical analysis
• Northern ranchera lyrics