"El Son de la Negra" is a Mexican
folk song
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, originally from
Tepic, Nayarit
Tepic () is the capital and largest city of the western Mexican state of Nayarit, as well as the seat of the Tepic Municipality.
Located in the central part of the state, it stands at an altitude of above sea level, on the banks of the Río Mo ...
, best known from an adaptation by
Jaliscian musical composer
Blas Galindo
Blas Galindo Dimas (February 3, 1910 – April 19, 1993) was a Mexican composer.
Biography
Born in San Gabriel, Jalisco, Galindo studied intermittently from 1931 to 1944 at the National Conservatory in Mexico City, studying with Carlos Chávez ...
in 1940 for his suite ''Sones de mariachi''.
It is commonly referred to as the "second national anthem of Mexico." The masterpiece was presented for the first time in the city of
New York
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, but Jesús Jáuregui, a Mexican ethnologist, claims that throughout its history the song has undergone modifications and arrangements that can hardly be attributed to a single author or epoque.
The song has become representative of Mexican folk or relative to Mexico worldwide.
Jáureguis's more than two decades of research were presented on 15 July 2010 at a conference held in the state of
Nayarit
Nayarit (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Nayarit ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Nayarit), is one of the 31 states that, along with Mexico City, comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 20 municipalities and its ...
under the patronage of the state's ''Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes''.
Among the specific topics discussed were the origin and authorship of the tune, its first recordings, excerpts from Galindo's memoirs, and photographs of older scores and lyrics.
Lyrics
See also
*
Huapango de Moncayo (
es), also called the "second national anthem"
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Afro-Mexicans
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References
External links
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Rescatan origen del Son de la Negra' from
INAH
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Spanish-language songs
Songwriter unknown
Year of song unknown
Mexican songs