Talk:Banda music

Too much myths

The assumption of a grandiloquent attitude as a resource to maintain, at all costs, an origin and diffusion of the brass bands throughout the Mexican northwest from the very specific state of Sinaloa, is only understood as a local Sinaloan folklore, an old wives' tale, which has taken overtones of "a historical truth" that is far from being true.

From a distance, neither the documentary nor the newspaper documentation of Sinaloa itself are more likely to make it evident that this musical form only became popular in Sinaloa until the second or third decade of the 20th century since, as in its neighboring states of Sonora, Durango, Nayarit and Jalisco, the existence of one or two small wind bands that have emerged since the end of the 19th century can barely be specified, basically as a product of the conversion of former military band musicians into popular musicians; a process that, in itself, has been documented in Mexico City or Guadalajara since the first half of the 19th century.

Thus, since 1854 in this last largest city in northwestern Mexico, maestro Clemente Aguirre established a school in Guadalajara that trained a good part of the musicians and directors of this genre until almost the end of this century. In the heat of this, the birth of popular bands in Tepic, Zacatecas and other towns in the area, also reached the south of Sinaloa where DIFOCUR itself (cultural directorate of the Sinaloa state government), since the eighties of the last century, confirmed that the germ of their wind bands was a school established in the town of Pánuco de Coronado, municipality of Concordia, by a teacher named Inocencio Díaz who, for that matter, came from the city of Acaponeta, today Nayarit, and who, in In the same sense, some of the first Sinaloan band maestros, such as Severiano Moreno, formed their musical schools by interacting with musicians of the same genre of brass band from the neighboring states of Durango and Nayarit.

In this way, if for the first Mazatlan carnivals the newspaper sources don't report the musical participation of wind bands until the 1920s or 1930s; Also the same sources but from other cities with carnivals such as Tepic, Guaymas, Hermosillo or La Paz, it is also until then that they also record the presence of wind bands. Also it's worth menctioning that Germans in the 19th century were a tiny minority in Mexico (there's little to no evidence of mass German migrations to Northern Mexico after the Mexican-USA war of 1847 and before that date, they were probably in smaller numbers than they were in the Porfiriato era), most of them didn't live in the North but rather in Central Mexico and maybe the Bajío, and the ones who lived in Mazatlán port were only merchants, not musicians, they only sold musical instruments for the local population, and that Mexico had already a polka craze before the Second Mexican Empire. Dances like the waltz, the aforementioned polka, schottische and some others were already popular before the arrival of Maximillian I. Piston operated brass instruments arrived to Mexico as early as 1850, a decade and a half before the Second Empire, so attributing banda origin to Maximilian's troops seems rather exaggerated. Banda wasn't exclussive or originated in Sinaloa, nor was the main influence that spread to other neigbouring states, which already had similar wind bands at the same time Sinaloa had theirs. I'd encourage to wikipedia eidtors to be more careful with their sources. 201.141.23.80 (talk) 22:22, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

Date "El Sinaloense" ("The Sinaloan") was written.

The article says 1944, but the article about the song itself https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Sinaloense says 1984. Which is correct? John Schulien (talk) 03:07, 18 September 2024 (UTC)