Sonidero

In Mexican popular culture, sonidero is a group of discs jockeys, engineers and entertainers who plays recorded music in public mainly cumbia, salsa, guaracha and it subgenres.[1][2] The term includes professionals, semiproffesionals and amateurs audio, lights and video equipment owners (the sonido) used to organize or participate in public dancing events (also called sonidero events) and all the communities behind this urban culture, the sonidero movement.[3][4]

Sonidero
Stylistic originsMexican cumbia, Colombian cumbia
Cultural origins20th century, Mexico City
Two people dancing at baile sonidero in Martín Carrera, Mexico City.

Some of its singularities are the reproduction of recorded music from Latin genres as cumbia, salsa, bachata and guaracha; on which the sonidero sends overlaying shout-outs and messages to the public simultaneously with the reproduction of the music.[1] The advertising and identity of the sounds has its own aesthetic, which is present to announce its events permanently in urban spaces in Mexico. In addition street performances, sonidos are hired for private parties. Likewise sonidero ave a strong relation with Colombia symbols and cultural expressions being cumbia and vallenato their main ryhtms. Sonidero tributes Colombian heritage including names of Colombian cities in their names and the flag of Colombia in their symbols and promotions.

There is no an exact source of sonidero movement tracing the appearance of sonidos in colonias such as Tepito, San Juan de Aragón and Peñón de los Baños —named for this reason Colombia Chiquita- and Tacubaya in the middle of XX century. In addition to Mexico City and Great Mexico City, sounds and sonideros are present throughout Mexico and United States due Mexican immigrant communities.[4]

References
  1. Aguilar, Rodolfo (Spring 2020). "Gracias a Dios que los Bailes Me Han Ayudado: Exploring the Baile Economy and Symbolic Networking among Mexican Sonidos in Chicagoland". www.ingentaconnect.com. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
  2. Ramírez, Marco (coordination) (2014). Sonideros en las aceras, véngase la gozadera (PDF). Mexico: Tumbona Ediciones.
  3. Salazar Lara, Flor Andrea (2018). "Movimiento sonidero: construcción de socialidades y visualidades (Sonidero movement: construction of socialities and visualities)". revlat (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-05-30.
  4. Aguilar, Rodolfo (2014). "Tambien Bailamos en el norte: sonidero transnational, lives, and Mexican migrants in the Midwest". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)


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