What is Ranchera music?
{{redlinks|date=November 2011}} {{Infobox music genre |name= Ranchera |bgcolor= darksalmon |color= black |stylistic_origins= [[Mariachi]] |cultural_origins= {{flagicon|Mexico}} [[México]] |instruments = [[Guitar]], [[Mexican vihuela|Vihuela]], [[Trumpet]], [[Violin]], [[Guitarrón]] |popularity= 1930–present |derivatives= |subgenrelist= |subgenres=[[bolero]] ranchero, [[corrido]], [[Narcocorrido]] |fusiongenres= |regional_scenes= |other_topics=[[Charro]] - [[Jarabe tapatío]] (also the name of a song) - [[Zapateado]] - [[Son Huasteco]] - [[Huapango]] - [[Mexican pop]] }} '''Ranchera''' is a [[Latin music]] genre. Ranchera is usually sung by one or more people with a [[guitar]]. It is popularized in [[Mexico]]. This type of music can be traced back to the [[Mexican Revolution]]. It is also similar to [[Mariachi]] music. == Ranchera singers == {{col-begin}} {{col-2}} *[[Miguel Aceves Mejía]] *[[Antonio Aguilar]] *[[Pepe Aguilar]] *[[Lola Beltrán]] *[[Rocío Dúrcal]] *[[Alejandro Fernández]] *[[Pedro Fernández]] *[[Vicente Fernández]] *[[Pedro Infante]] *[[José Alfredo Jiménez]] {{col-2}} *[[Lorenzo de Monteclaro]] *[[Jorge Negrete]] *[[Lucha Reyes (Mexican singer)|Lucha Reyes]] *[[Cuco Sánchez]] *[[Javier Solís]] *[[Chavela Vargas]] *[[Lucha Villa]] *[[Yolanda Del Rio]] *[[Aida Cuevas]] *[[Selena]] {{col-end}} ==References== * Brenner, H. (1996). ''Música ranchera. Das mexikanische Äquivalent zur Country and Western Music aus historischer, musikalischer und kommerzieller Sicht'' (''Música ranchera: El equivalente mexicano de la música country y la música del Oeste'') (Musikethnologische Sammelbände 14). Foreword by Thomas Stanford. Tutzing: Verlag Hans Schneider, 1996 [{{ISBN|3-7952-0867-X}}].den suger balle ==Other websites== *[http://www.rancheras.com/ Rancheras] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717050648/http://www.rancheras.com/ |date=2011-07-17 }} - music *[http://www.sobrino.net/mer/The_Ranchera.html Musical analysis] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930031736/http://www.sob