Corridos y Bailando

Corridos- a Mexican ballad or folksong about struggle against oppression and injustice.

"the Texas-Mexico border should be considered a prime candidate for the birth of the corrido. He is particularly interested in a special type of corrido that this border engendered, namely, the corrido of intercultural conflict. For Paredes, this corrido emerges as a major folkloric genre in the early period of Anglo-Mexican contact (from the 1850s on)"

The Texas-Mexican Conjunto
"As an expressive symbol, norteño music might well be considered the quintessence of border Mexican culture -- its soul, as it were. We are particularly interested here in the Texas Mexican variant of norteño music -- the conjunto, as it is called by the tejanos -- since this is the ensemble that was originally subjected to the most intense artistic elaboration."


Los Tigres del Norte are by far the most popular norteno band in northern mexico.


And here is a fun video if you yourself would like to practice duranguense before we leave!


Some other popular dances in Mexico (as well as the rest of latin america) are:
Cumbia

Bachata

Merengue

Salsa

and of course, reggaeton