TomG
Jul 4, 2004, 8:35 PM
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Re: [Lavanda] Books About Mexico - english or spanish
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You failed to mention food, although I doubt you fail to indulge. It is worth carting back certain foodstuffs that are hard to get or expensive up north.
As for music, I cart that back also. With so many being so uptight around here I will not give any shopping tips. I share it all with immigrants up here, especially my musician friends. Good stuff is a little hard to get, one has to weed through so much kid's trash to find it.
I can't imagine you really don't know what music you favor. I assume you are making conversation.
Corner a Mexican about what music he likes, and he will probably say, "de todo, de todo." If you corner me I probably would say the best from the Epoco de Oro, unless I was in a different mood and said Junior Klan, or Lila Downs, or Chayito Valdez, ... or Alicia Villareal (when she sounds like Chayito Valdez), or the sounds of the Danzon, or music from el Ismo, and always the sounds from the coast of Veracruz ...... but nothing, that is absolutely nothing beats a spontaneously thrown together home sing along in the pueblo of Y. in the coffee mountains of Veracruz. Music talent is abundant there, who knows why.
Load up while you can, Mexico is changing. The damned electronic keyboard and speakers (the love affair with oversized speakers is destroying Mexican eardrums and Mexico itself) is fast taking over. I would almost recommend that you don't tip Mexican musicians very much so that they can't get enough money ahead to buy a keyboard and get into the wedding business. I was at a birthday party for a two year old that had 6 foot high speakers - with all the noise......and his grandfather is an excellent singer, had his own group, but didn't sing. They just played noisy CD's.
Books are not much good for carrying memory, too cerebral. It's tastes, smell and sounds that do the trick.
(This post was edited by TomG on Jul 4, 2004, 8:36 PM)
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