Word: mariachis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Symbol. By an ironic twist, the sergeant's song became the favorite of Pancho Villa's men, not of Carranza's army, where it was born. For years, a guitar-strumming mariachi had only to play Adelita in the company of a Carrancista to get his guitar strings shot off. Carranza won the war, but Adelita has long since won the battle of the mariachi bands. Today, when a group of paunchy old boys gather in a cantina for an evening-Indians who robbed with Zapata, green-eyed Chihuahuans who followed Felipe Angeles, tall-talking Sonorans...
...which brings us to Siqueiros. I may be prejudiced, but I think that he and his wife, Angélica are two of the warmest, most honest, interesting people I have met. I remember a Sunday afternoon in Cuernavaca when he took over a Mariachi band and gave us a concert of the lusty songs of Obregón's armies; an evening in the California bar when he hunched forward over a café table and practically mesmerized Orozco into sponsoring an exhibit of young Mexican artists; a night in my apartment where he kept a roomful...
...steel watch chain hanging below the knees of his balloon trousers which narrow at the ankles. He is forever fondling and fussing over his mike, always starts off by jabbering such gibberish as Viriviriviri-virividee, V por Victori. At intervals he tosses in his own crazy versions of mariachi tunes, Russian melodies, Italian arias; but mostly he just spouts pocho like so much fast doubletalk. His only complete gag is feeble: Roosevelt and Churchill in mud up to the waist and the neck, with Hitler in mud only to the ankles-because, comes the tag line, he is standing...
...There are stacks of records by the omnipresent Mexican street bands, the mariachis. Most of it sounds best on the streets, is crudely executed, poorly recorded. Recommendable is the great sectional song, Guadalajara, by Mariachi Tapatio (Victor...