A Mexican Sound / Un Son Mexicano
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A Mexican Sound / Un Son Mexicano is available in these regions:
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The beautiful Huastecan sound (son huasteco) has echoed from the mountains of northeast Mexico for more than a century. On Sundays, people meet in town squares to dance and stomp to the explosive violin solos and driving guitar rhythms that make this music so unique. Son huasteco continues to flourish here despite two decades of globalization and mass migration to the United States. From the award-winning director of The Other Side of Immigration, a documentary that explores the wonders of this vibrant musical tradition. If you don’t already love son huasteco music, you will by the time you finish watching A Mexican Sound / Un Son Mexicano. Its energy and emotion are contagious.
Official Selection at the San Diego Latino Film Festival, Cine Las Americas International Film Festival, Sunscreen Film Festival, Irish Latin American Film Festival, Phoenix College Latino Film Festival
Episodes
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Watch the complete film with subtitles in English. [Aviso: esta es la película completa con subtítulos en inglés.]
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Ver la película completa con subtítulos en español. [Note: this is the complete film with subtitles in Spanish.]
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Musicians and experts discuss a key ingredient to the vitality of son huasteco: improvisation. A masterful performance by Los Camperos de Valles illustrates just how son huasteco musicians use improvisation to entertain and engage audiences. You don't want to miss this scene--we were reluctant to leave it out of the final version of the film.
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Many consider Los Camperos de Valles to be the best son huasteco trio in recorded history. Watch and listen as surviving members Marcos Hernandez and Gregorio Solano play this essential huastecan tune at an intimate gathering in Ciudad Valles. They are joined by Gregorio's son, Diego, on jarana.
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Explore the market in Xilitla, a magical little town that's home to the longest running weekly son huasteco festival in the world. Listen in as Trio Neblinas plays "El Fandanguito." The musicians are accompanied by the stomping and dancing of people from who travel to Xilitla every Sunday from the remote villages up in the mountains.
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Elias Gonzalez Zamora tells the story behind Xilitla's weekly son huasteco festival. Then, Trio Neblinas performs "El Querreque"--a crowd favorite. Dancers stomp on the wooden platform so forcefully that they often drown out the music.
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Gregorio Solano plays wild violin solos and harmonizes with his longtime collaborator and master of falsetto singing, Marcos Hernandez. These two original members of Los Camperos de Valles are joined by Marcos's son, Fernando, who sings and plays jarana on this almost haunting tune.
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Los Camperos de Valles (joined again by Fernando Hernandez) amaze us once again with this beautiful interpretation of "El Sacamandú"