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¡Bienvenido a
México!
How to fiesta
La comida
La música
… and a piñata
Mariachis y (narco)corridos
- street musicians from Jalisco- 1905: birthday party of mexican dictator
Porfirio Díaz- french: “Mariage”- traditional “Charro”-suits (mexican
cowboys)- Ensemble: oversize mexican guitar,
smaller guitar (“Vihuela”), bass guitar, trumpet, 2 violins, singer, harp (occasionally)
- songs about love, heartaches, women & the beauty of Mexico
- Día de Santa Cecilia (Nov 22, patron saint)
- Fiesta Internacional del Mariachi (Jalisco, late Aug/early Sept)
- Mexico City: Plaza Garibaldi (N)
- Heroic ballads (former themes: borderland struggle, Mexican Revolution; modern: love, violence, drugs, crime, corruption) - Employers: often the mafia (> 20 deaths in the recent years)- not played publicly anymore since 2001
Family occasions
-baptism- quinceañera
Thanksgiving mass (catholics)- Rosary/locket (Señora de Guadalupe)- Tiara- Flower bouquet
Celebration party- Gifts/toasts & speeches- Dances (waltz & modern)- La Ultima Muñeca (Mayan ritual)- Ritual of the shoe- recalentado
- wedding- funeral- & others
MY SISTERS
DEBUT
El deporte
(Pantomime)
- Día de la Raza- Navidad- Día de Nuestra
Señora de Guadalupe
- Año Nuevo- Día de Todos los
Santos & Día de los Muertos
- Semana Santa- Carnaval- Día de la
Independencia- Día de los Santos
Reyes
Semana Santa (Apr) y Navidad (Dec 25) – most important holidays of the year
- Holy Week (Palm Sunday – Easter Sunday)- church mass on Good Friday & Easter
Sunday- breaking of cascarones over heads of
friends & family- Passion Play, Processión del Silencio
(regional)- flower decorated altars everywhere
- Beginning: fiesta for the Virgin de la Solidad (Dec 16-18, patron saint of Oaxaca)
- Highlight: Posada Play (Dec 18-24, afterwards church mass, piñata party)
- Dec 23: huge parade (Queretaro); Noche de los Rabanos (booths on Zócalo)
- Christmas Eve: Nochebuena (processions, music, dancing, piñatas, fireworks)
- Día de los Santos Reyes (Jan 06): family dinner with mole and rosca (image, muneca inside)
- End of festivities: Día de Candelaria (Feb 2, party, dances on churchyard, special market)
Carnaval (Mar)- 5-day celebration before Ash Wednesday
(beginning of the 40-day fasting period)- “Carnaval“ (Latin): take away/goodbye to flesh- largest events in port cities, especially in:
Mazatlán (third largest after Rio de Janeiro & New Orleans), Ensenada, La Paz, Veracruz
- Parades, floats, costumes, masks (protection from evil spirits, anonymity), music, dancing, food, drinks & liquor, cascarones, crafts market
- occasionally: amusement parks, masquerade balls, outdoor festivals, public street fair (Mazatlán), fireworks
- Coronation of the Flower Queen, the Carnaval Queen & El Rey Feo
- the Quema de Mal Humor- Monday: El Día del Marido Oprimido
Día de la Raza (Oct 12)- celebration of Columbus’s arrival in the
Americas 1492- first celebrated in Mexico in 1928- celebrated all over the continent & in Spain
(USA: Columbus Day, Bahamas: Discovery Day, Uruguay: Día de las Américas)
- new Spanish title since 1957: Día de la Hispanidad
- role-plays in schools
Día de la Independencia (Sep 16)
- after Spanish Revolution under Napoleon: splitting of Spaniards in Mexico between Gachupines (Spanish-born following Joseph Bonaparte) and Criollos (Spaniards born in Mexico, followers of King Ferninand of Spain)
- Catholic priest Miguel Hidalgo: well-educated humanitarian sympathising with Indians
- El Grito de Dolores: “¡Mexicanos, Viva Mexico!“ turned into a massacre of Spaniards
- 1810: battle of independence between indigenous Indians and Mestizos against Spanish government
- Hidalgo executed by Gachupines only 1 year later
- 11 years of war- today: every year at midnight on Sept 15,
Mexicans shout the Grito (lead by President)
Día de Todos los Santos (Nov 01) & Día de los Muertos (Nov 02)
- All Saints‘ Day (Nov 01) for dead children (angelitos)
- All Souls‘ Day (Nov 02) return of the deceased adults
- Aztec festival in Jul/Aug (queen of the underworld Mictecacíhuatl)
- sweet bread, sugar canes and chocolate in various shapes (skulls, coffins, etc.), skeleton toy dolls, puppets
- whole meals (favorite food and drinks) for deceased family member
- Candles to light up their way- Gravestones decorated with special flower
bouquets only for this occasion- All-night vigil (traditionally) with church
bells ringing- Best in: Oaxaca, Pátzcuaro
Día de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe (Dec 12)- La Morena, la Indita- Story behind belief: the Virgin of Guadalupe
appeared to Juan Diego (indegenous Indian) on Dec 09, 1531
- he has to convince the Bishop Juan de Zumarraga to build a church on top of the Hill of Tepeyac
- the Bishop did not believe the words of the newly baptized Christian
- Virgin Mary told him to pick flowers on top of the hill (in December)
- Juan Diego used his coat collecting them – where an image of the Virgin appeared to the Bishop
- first procession 2 weeks later – Hernán Cortés participated
- Today: fiesta on the Plaza with music and dance, crafts market, altars, food, parades/rodeos/bullfights (regional), etc.
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triviaGRANDE
Kara-Jane Schupferin association with ijgd
Mexico 2011Zyklus A – Vorbereitungsseminar II – Asien/Lateinamerika
special thanks to: Benni & Kathi
Indication of source/list of references
Literature- ADAC Reiseführer Mexiko- 1,000 Places to see before you
die- Lonely Planet Mexico- Columbus Tourist Attractions &
Events of the World- Komet Mexiko- 100 Städte der Welt- Traumziele- Traumstraßen
World wide web- www.magisches-mexiko.com- www.sectur.gob.mx- www.visitmexico.com- www.panamrace.com- www.mexonline.com- www.wikipedia.org
Images- www.etsy.com- www.photobucket.com- www.mexicovacationtravels.com- www.flickr.com- www.veranstaltungsdienst.de- www.imdb.com- www.123rf.com- www.mex.homestead.com- www.popartmachine.com- www.cookingwithjomama.com- www.citypictures.org- www.mapoftheunitedstates.wordpress.com- www.milebymile.com