Various Artists - Mexico South / Various - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The songs and dances heard today in Mexico are a complex mixture, with their origins in both indigenous and European music. That music was a vigorous art prior to the arrival of the Spaniards may be inferred from the impressive collections of pre-Columbian musical instruments to be seen in museums throughout the world. Music held a far more important place in ancient Mexico than in many contemporaneous cultures in other parts of the world... Charles M. Bogert and Martha R. Bogert.

Zepoll, an outstanding classical guitarist, was recorded at his home in Monterrey. The Trio Leones was currently playing at a restaurant on Reforma in Mexico City.

The Indians of Mexico were conquered by Spaniards in the 16th century and have now been living and mixing with these 'alien' people for over 400 years. Because they originally existed in very large numbers, they were not submerged and destroyed as were many of the Indian tribes of the United States, and Indian blood exists in large proportions in the present Mexican population. Indian culture, on the other hand, has largely disappeared... Henrietta Yurchenco.