Banda music is the soundtrack of modern Mexico, with its thumping polka beat and trumpets blasting everywhere from rural fairs to working-class Mexico City weddings. And it's increasingly made in ...

As I say, the label for that music is Afro-Caribbean. But this music also became very Mexican and it spawned its own varieties of stuff in Mexico,” he said.

Tracking the music of MexicoWhile the first film captured the band’s relationships with mariachi artists in the central Pacific coast Mexican state of Jalisco, “Fandango” documents a two ...

Teatro Paraguas has announced '¡Viva México! The Music, Dance, and Poetry of México,' a spectacular cultural event ...

"My dad worked in norteño music for many years; he was knowledgeable and loved norteño music," Cano's son, Servando Cano Jr., now president of SERCA Live, tells Billboard. "When we launched it, we ...

Narcocorridos — or drug ballads — are more popular than ever in Mexico, where a generation that came of age during the drug war has embraced songs that recount both the spoils and the ...

At age 60, the Mexican composer has finally won the recognition she deserves, with new recordings, prestigious residencies ...

People shop for pirated music CDs in downtown Mexico City, Mexico on June 27, 2006. The pirate albums sell for 20 pesos, just under $2 apiece, about one-tenth of the in-store price. Marco Ugarte / AP ...