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From the Central America to southeastern Europe: Mexican and Yu-Mex music and its echoes in Croatian music today

From the Central America to southeastern Europe: Mexican and Yu-Mex music and its echoes in Croatian music today The phenomenon of „Mexican music“ can be traced from the 1950s in former Yugoslavia. The crucial role played Mexican cinematography, and in former Yugoslavia very popular movie „Un dia de vida“. Interesting is the fact that those movies were popular among village as well as city population, and the songs were especially favorite. Most of the hits from the movies got also the pandan/match in Croatian/Serbian language, and new “mexican” stile was very beloved at a wide audience. Numerous records were made of originals, as well as rewritten songs, and there is also a list of new songs made in a “mex style” or mariachi style. Wide range of very known and popular singers and performers as well as newcomers made a try in this new genre. Comparing the traditions of the original songs as well as the newly composed songs made by the authors in Croatia and Serbia, I will try to find possible explanations for this musical phenomenon. It seemed that the genre was forgotten, but new interests for Mexican music, precisely mariachi music was raised with the Los Caballeros – mariachi band from Zagreb who dedicated their work in playing “authentic Mexican music”. With them, the interest for yu-mex also increased, as well as for the echoes it left in other genres (there were some documentary movies made, and a CDbox compilation “101 Mexicana”). Detecting some crucial points or better said songs from the past I will place them in a contemporary surrounding presenting work of some young musicians who still cherish the "mixed" tradition. By presenting some case studies of performers but also fans of that music I will show the impact this “music migration” has in life of them today.

music migration, mariachi, yu-mex

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