Music and Family
For the purpose of this interview, I chose to interview my mother who is not only 28 years older than me, but also grew up in a very different environment which I know greatly impacted the way she was exposed to music. Because she grew up in a small village in Mexico in the middle of nowhere, she did not have access to the technological advances that other people around the world may have had. I began this interview by asking, "What are your earliest memories of music?". My mother stated that she has fond memories of discovering and learning new music through cancioneros or song books. It was through these song books that she discovered her love for Ranchero artists like Pedro Infante, Vicente Fernandez, and Antonio Aguilar. She claims that her version of "listening" to songs was flipping through the cancioneros and learning the lyrics to her favorite songs as there were no radios where she could actually "listen" to music. Below, I have attached ...