Mexico is Losing a Bit of Its Cultural Heritage Tim Johnson - McClatchy
go to original June 18, 2013

Mexicans don’t sing as often as they once did. Not at home. Nor when getting their hair cut. Nor at their jobs. That’s what Jose Luis Ceron tells me. He’s a sociologist and an expert on Mexican traditional and popular music, particularly the style known as danzon.

I went to see Ceron on a related matter and he started talking about the loss of cultural heritage in the country over the past half century.

“There are two things we don’t do like we used to,” he said, “sing and dance.”

“We used to sing at home. If we got together, someone would grab a guitar and we’d start to sing. People would sing at work. People would sing in barbershops. We sang at get-togethers (tertulias) among young people,” he went on.

Sing at work? Sing in barber shops? Yes, he said, haven’t you seen old Mexican movies? “Mexican cinema reflects this very well,” he said. “You could sing with any pretext,” even at the office.

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