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Music and Hearing: An Intersensory Experience
When we listen to music, our brain's main sensory regions activate and communicate, which is an intersensory experience that includes hearing.
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Numerous subgenres and styles of performance are represented throughout Mexico's rich musical heritage. Many cultures have left their mark on it, but the European, Native American, and African cultures have been the most obvious and profound.
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Consuelo Velázquez, the composer of the song Bésame Mucho (Kiss Me A Lot)
The song "Bésame Mucho" by pianist, composer, and performer Consuelo Velázquez, has been one of the most popular Mexican songs of the 20th century and of all times around the world.
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Even with adversity, mariachis preserve traditional Mexican music
International Mariachi Day, January 21. UNESCO recognizes mariachis as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. It is urgent to give them greater diffusion. Being a woman and mariachi is difficult because the emblem of the charro is identified with manhood.
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María Grever, the most influential Mexican composer of the first half of the 20th Century
About 35 records of the acclaimed Mexican composer María Grever are stored in the Artistic and Literary Property collection of the General Archive of the Nation, making her one of the women with the most records in this documentary collection.
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Troubadour, jaranero, sonero and Mexican versifier, Arcadio Hidalgo
Arcadio Hidalgo, troubadour, jaranero, sonero, and Mexican versifier, was the owner of an extraordinary mastery of popular poetic improvisation.
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Higinio Peláez, Mexican composer, musician, and cultural promoter
Higinio Peláez Ramos, musician, composer, faithful lover and disseminator of the music of the Costa Chica, a devotion he shared with the coastal region in Mexico.
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About Pepe Domínguez, the Mexican composer, and musician
Pepe Domínguez, Mexican composer and musician, originally from Yucatán. Author of "Granito de sal", "Beso asesino", "Pájaro azul" and the famous "Aires del Mayab".