Music

Rocking Yiddish

By Rebecca Huval

Updating a tradition: the band Klezmerson rocks out klezmer music, an ancient Yiddish dance genre.

Singing the Veracruz Blues

By Catherine Dunn

A veteran bluesman and jarocho musicians teach to preserve Mexican musical traditions.

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The Nortec Collective

By Inside México

Out of the ashes of Tijuana’s drug wars and cultural chaos comes a rising musical star, the Nortec Collective. More >>

Bobby McFerrin: vocal technique at its best

By Marina de Santiago

Ten-time grammy winner Bobby McFerrin has mastered the art of the voice as musical instrument. More >>

Los Folkloristas

By Beatriz Mancebo

Staying faithful to Mexico's traditional music, Los Folkloristas' repertoire includes everything from a pre-Hispanic Mayan lullaby to Son Jarocho. More >>

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San Diego radio stations, dodging the FCC's oversight and fees, sometimes put their radio towers along the Tijuana hillsides. This is how Pepe Mogt discovered his love of electronic music from Europe and the US. He learned to DJ himself, and eventually blended the accordion, bass, and snare of Norteño music with techno, creating a genre that could only exist in Tijuana: Nortec. More >>

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Drug Ballads

Produced By Border Stories

Recently, the musical stature of narcocorridos (drug ballads) has gained international interest for having landed at the center of several high-profile murder cases, including the December 2007 assassination of the leader of the popular band K-Paz de la Sierra. In the past two years, more than a dozen other well-known singers have been killed, one of whom, Valentin Elizalde, wrote the ballad "Regalo Caro," performed by the musicians profiled in the above video. More >>