Banda

Question 1

What is Banda?

Answer 1

Musical ensemble of wind instruments mostly brass and percussions
Trumpet
Tambora
Tuba
Eb Horn
Trombone
Clarinet

Question 2

The countryside

Answer 2

Music ensembles were participatory, non-professional musicians
People were illiterate.
Festivals and the carnivals where all social classes celebrated together.
1933 the Internado del Estado de Culiacan (former military school) offered
music education to children of poor families
Soon all villages had a banda ensemble

Question 3

Mazatlan- The sounds of the coast

Answer 3

From a fishing village to a garrison town.
Wealthy immigrants, elite settlers
A taste for foreign band music
Military bands played the “serenada” open air concerts of military music twice a week
High art vs. Low Art
1885- Military bands had their first public concert with canciones del campesino

Question 4

Urbanization of Mazatlan in the Porfirian Era

Answer 4

1875- the Teatro Rubio became the pride of the elite
The gap between social classes grew
Decrees prohibited gambling,drinking and other improper behaviors of the lower class
1926 the Union of Railroad Workers created “Banda la Rielera”
1930s-Jazz orchestras and ballroom dancing
Banda introduced the saxophones to interpret the music of the American big-band era

Question 5

Banda and Technology in the 1950s

Answer 5

Pop music replaced the big band orchestras
Banda music was not affected and the radio popularized it further
Record Industry
Radio facilitated the assimilation of
Caribbean and American music styles and repertoire. The more commercial bandas adapted the percussion instruments of the conjuntos tropicales to play the popular Cuban dance genres.
These modified bandas became known as bandas-orchestras

Question 6

Banda Los Guamuchileños

Answer 6

1940s-Banda Los Guamuchileños directed by Romeo Zazueta was established in Culiacan
The Banda was often used for political campaign
1952-Invited to Mexico City they recorded an album of four songs.
Their recording brought more popularity to Banda Music

Question 7

Cruz Lizarraga-Banda El Recodo La Madre De Todas Las Bandas/The Mother of all Bandas

Answer 7

Born in 1918 in El Recodo,
1951 He created a banda for RCA- Vietor to release locally a few singles.
He envisioned a new type of Banda that was elegant and offered danceable music.
He arranged for banda the music of US big bands and the great Mexican orchestras.
Musicians had to wear a uniform
Repertoire that appealed to middle and upper class audience
20 millions of records sold
1989 First Banda to introduce a vocalist.