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The importance of expanding the thematic range of Mexican-inspired repertoire for instrumental ensembles, addressing the prevalence of stereotypes and caricatures in popular culture and music. The author, Sixto F. Montesinos, discusses the historical origins of these stereotypes and their impact on Mexican-inspired music, providing suggestions for composers, arrangers, and educators to diversify this repertoire. The document also highlights examples of inaccuracies in published Mexican-inspired compositions and the significance of authentic Mexican compositions.
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Sixto F. Montesinos, D.M.A. Assistant Professor of Music and Head of Instrumental Studies Saint Mary’s College of California Moraga, California
Chicago is the traditional homelands of the Council of the Three Fires: The Odawa, Ojibwe and Potawatomi Nations. Many other Tribes like the Miami, Ho-Chunk, Sac and Fox also called this area home. Located at the intersection of several great waterways, the land naturally became a site of travel and healing for many Tribes.
American Indians continue to call this area home and now Chicago is home to the third largest Urban American Indian community that still practices their heritage, traditions and care for the land and waterways.
Today, Chicago continues to be a place that calls many people from diverse backgrounds to live and gather here. Despite the many changes the city has experienced, our American Indian communities see the importance of the land and this place that has always been a city home to many diverse backgrounds and perspectives. —American Indian Center of Chicago
Fiesta Stereotypes in 20th-Century American Culture
● The Good Neighbor Policy Era (1933-1945) ○ Cultural explosion of all things Latin American ○ Latin American culture seen and interpreted through the eyes of white Americans ■ Stereotypes and caricatures in Music, films, fashion ○ Goodwill Music Ambassadors ■ Bing Crosby (August–October 1941) ■ Grace Moore (1943) ■ Aaron Copland (August–December 1941)
Source : Hess, Carol A. Representing the Good Neighbor: Music, Difference, and the Pan American Dream. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
How do Fiesta stereotypes manifest in the current
landscape of repertoire written for instrumental
ensembles?
There is a lack of thematic diversity within the musical landscape of
Mexican-inspired repertoire for instrumental ensembles due to
deeply rooted stereotypes and caricatures that were enhanced during
the Good Neighbor cultural phenomenon and well into the 20th
Century.
