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SeanRuadh

So, what is this I'm listening to?
I've been checking out the spanish language stations, but I can't figure out what formats I'm listening to. For instance:
Tuba playing the bass line, in a sort of a polka beat: Norteno? Conjuto? Regional Mexican? Czech?
Electronic device mimicking an organ: Tejano?
Electronic device mimicking strings: Traditional?
Whacked out button accordion bending notes: Conjuto? Corrido? Regional? Traditional? TexMex?
La Tropa F... are they Tejano or norteno? or are they extinct?
And what is this atonal chanting, while a singer sings... Kinda like rap... Que Es?
Recuerda? Reggaton? What are these things coming from my radio?
(I'm looking your way, D.E.)
SR
 
David Eduardo's Webpage is the only thing that I can forward you to. He has audio samples of most (if not all) of the spanish language formats in the US.

www.davidgleason.com
 
***WARNING**contains material based on opinion,and not necessarily factual information.
 
Nope, It's all true, I haven't found anything wrong on Davids webpage.
Now, I grew up around spanish music, so I know those samples aren't wrong.

La Tropa F....sounds like.....Tejano
The music with tuba that sounds like Circus music, it's Banda.
Now, Norteno involves a lot of accordian, So does Tejano. but the difference in Tejano and Norteno is sometimes the keyboard sounds.
It's really hard to explain what sounds like what, this is why i directeed you to his website, he has various clips of spanish formats
Conjunto....I don't think there is such a format for this music anywhere in the world. You can hear a little Conjunto in most Tejano stations but that also is going extinct. You closest bet to a Conjunto station will be KEDA in San Antonio.
Corridos are somwhat like Norteno, but not entirely, This type of music is more hardcore and usually tells a story(unlike Norteno that focuses on love songs most of the times).
You more than likely need to learn spanish in order to identify spanish music.
David, please correct me if I am wrong anywhere.
 
-juan- said:
David, please correct me if I am wrong anywhere.
Click to expand...

Very correct, Juan. You nailed it from the perspective of the dominant sound that a non-Hispanic listener could use to identify music genres. It isn't all just "mariachi" to an educated ear.

Of course, since I did that page, we have added reggaetón as a genre as well as duranguense.

Reggaetón is often called Latin Hip Hop, which is not quite correct but certainly gets close; it's a blend of hip hop, reggae and a variety of other Carribean sounds like salsa, merengue and bachata (merengueton, salsaton, bachataton... not original, but descriptive). And in Colombia, we have reggaetón with a fusion of cumbia dn vallenato, and even a Mexican variant with some banda sounds mixed or sampled in.

Duranguense is similar to banda, but the clarinet is predominant.
 
OOOOOOOOOOOH DOMINO! Can you read this one? You may interested to know that you're "Top-40" could be condemned by your supposed target audience. This city is not a melting pot of culture on the radio... it's just a big bowl of Chicken Noodle and CRACKERS, gumbo, Chicken Tortilla and add some greens for good measure. We are drowning in this soup of unlimited format and it blows.

But I digress, Domino, are you there?
 
Very interesting stuff. I always wondered about the differences between Conjuto and Norteno.
Corridos and ballads. When KVAR became the first FM Spanish language station in San Antonio, they hired the entire staff from Mexico City. Listeners wrote in to ask if they would play some local guys, like Little Joe and the Family, Flaco Jemenez, Estaban Jordan etc. The programmer responded his announcers would not speak slang TexMex, and they would not play "Cantina Music". Ha!
They bombed. A decade later KXTN came on with bilingual announcers and Tejano music, and went to the top.
-Juan: Is Ricky Davila still doing mornings on KEDA?
-David: What would you have called it when Juan Viesca set his Toleloche on fire?
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I don't know. I'm actually from Houston and currently in College Station. I've listened to KEDA when I was in San Antonio once and just saw how that station was really an "out of the Box" Tejano station. It was different from KXTN, (at the time) KHCK, and KQQK. I check Yes. com every once in a while and have seen their playlist chance a bit, but is still unique. They added Los Tigres Del Norte and Vicente Fernandez and many others I can't remember (very odd though).
Sorry I can't answer your question......still mad about the Aggies losing to Tech!!!!

Try the SA/Austin Board.
 
Thanks, Juan. I knew Ricky back in the '80s, and recall KEDA has always been contrary to the usual order of things. I admire their local ownership and community ties. Los Tigres, Steve Jordan, Flaco and Santiago, Los Gatos Negros, Chepe Solis, Juan Tejeda and all had been personal favorites when i was in that milleu. It has changed so much since the only choices were 'traditional' 'norteno' and 'salsa'. I just hope KEDA is still the same. (BARBECUE Y DOODLEE DOO!!!)

(And my spelling is bad. It's tololoche. It happened in the early 50s, long before Jimi Hendrix discovered the joys of combustion.)
 
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