¡Ay, Jalisco, No Te Rajes!
"¡Ay, Jalisco, no te rajes!" or in English ''Jalisco, don't back down'' is a Mexican music, Mexican ranchera song composed by Manuel Esperón with lyrics by Ernesto Cortázar Sr. It was written in 1941 and featured in the 1941 Mexican film ''¡Ay, Jalisco, no te rajes! (film), ¡Ay Jalisco, no te rajes!'', after which it became an enormous hit in Mexico. The melody of the song was used for the title song of the Disney film ''The Three Caballeros''. Both songs have been recorded by many artists. Analysis The song envisions a romance between the Mexican state of Jalisco and its capital city of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Guadalajara. In their book ''Writing Across Cultures: Narrative Transculturation in Latin America'', Ángel Rama and David Frye (writer), David Frye posit that the song portrays the common stereotype of Jalisco being "a paradigm of 'Mexicanness'. Though part of the ranchera genre, the song has the rhythm, rhythmic patterns of a polka. Mariachis will often include the so ...
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Manuel Esperón
Manuel Esperón González (August 3, 1911 – February 13, 2011) was a Mexican songwriter and composer."Biografía de Manuel Esperón González (Biography of Manuel Esperón González)"
. Sociedad de Autores y Compositores de México (SACM) (Society of Authors and Composers of Mexico). Along with the famous Mexican author Ernesto Cortazar, Esperón cowrote many songs for Mexican films, including " ¡Ay, Jalisco, no te rajes!" for the 1941 film of the same name, "Cocula" for ''El Peñón de las Ánimas'' (''
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