The other day I finally solved it. First off I want to say I have nothing against Mexican people, and have been to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe twice.

One thing I really don't like though, is that loud discordant Mexican "music" you often here blaring from people's car stereos and at Mexican restaurants.

It often has accordions in it and is heavily syncopated. It's like a happy obnoxious carnival sound...regularly you hear a male voice(s) crying out loud in high silly screams or laughter.

Well back to what happened. I was trying to figure out what genre that Mexican music is, and "a light went on". I said to my wife, you know that junking Mexican music stuff, I'm going to call it "Mexican Polka".

I then, later in the day, googled "Mexican Polka" and came across that in fact, that is exactly what it is!

Norteño Music

"Emperor Maximilian I was the first to bring the music of Middle Europe to México. By 1864 he had accuмulated marching bands and musicians to entertain him. When Maximilian's empire was defeated, many of his former army and fellow countrymen fled north and dispersed into what is now the southwestern United States. Many Polish immigrants arrived in Mexico, bringing their musical heritage to the region. Norteño music developed from a blending of Mexican and Spanish oral and musical traditions, military brass band instrumentation, and Germanic musical styles such as polka and waltz.

European immigrants to northern Mexico and the southwestern United States also brought dance traditions such as the varsovienne. The focus on the accordion in the music of their home countries was integrated into Mexican music, and the instrument is essential in the genre today. It was called norteño because it was most popular in the northern regions of Mexico."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norte%C3%B1o_(music)

This is very different from what you are describing blaring from their cars. It's sounds like you are describing 'corridos'.


Here take a look. (Nice find by the way about the link to Europe and Polka music. I didn't know that.)


A narco-corrido (Spanish pronunciation: [narkokoˈriðo], Drug Ballad) is a subgenre of the Mexican norteño-corrido (northern ballad) music genre, a traditional folk music from northern Mexico, from which other several genres have evolved. This type of music is heard on both sides of the US–Mexican border. It uses a danceable, accordion-based polka as a rhythmic base. The first corridos that focus on drug smugglers—the narco comes from "narcotics"—have been dated by Juan Ramírez-Pimienta to the 1930s. Early corridos (non-narco) go back as far to the Mexican Revolution of 1910, telling the stories of revolutionary fighters. Music critics have also compared narcocorrido lyrics and style to gangster rap and mafioso rap.[1][2]

Narcocorrido lyrics refer to particular events and include real dates and places.[3] The lyrics tend to speak approvingly of illegal activities, mainly drug trafficking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcocorrido