Epic Songs from the Mexican Revolucion

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Try this website:
http://www.iuma.com/IUMA/Bands/Musica_Maestro/

However, I believe that this post should be moved to another forum.
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Luis,

Thanks for the info. I will check it out.

Also, tell where should this forum go. Give me instructions on how to move it, and I will do it.

Of course, by my nature, I think that the post belongs here, as long has this forum covers the Americas to this day. This is why: corridos are historical primary sources for popular perceptions of Mexican Revolution.

I think the discussion in this forum has to gain from this topic.

At the same time, this is not my personal site, so I will go ahead and move it where you find it the most appropriate.

Hugo

Hmmm.  Lately I've been studying the Mexican Revolution in reference to my grandfather and his general Panfilo Natera.  One of the corridos, the famous La Cucaracha (in one version) does make reference to Panfilo Natera.  For corridos I've looked at the following site:

 http://redescolar.ilce.edu.mx/redescolar/act_permanent es/his toria/html/cantando_revolucion/mascorridos.htm

 

Edited by Sharrukin

No, I'm not currently living in Mexico, but I hope to get the time to make a trip there going to the places where my grandfather lived, governed, and fought.  He was at "La Bufa" (as my father put it, actually the Cerro de La Bufa just outside Zacatecas) in 1914 when it was taken by Villa.  His jefe, Panfilo Natera couldn't take it, and Villa disobeying Carranza's orders came south to personally take the city.  It was the bloodiest but decisive battle in the Revolution.

My sources of information are the following:

The Life and Times of Pancho Villa, by Friedrich Katz

The Mexican Revolution:  1910-1940, by Michael J. Gonzalez

Heroic Mexico, by William Weber Johnson  (awesome book!!!  he really brings the characters to life!!!  It almost reads like a novel; he really portrayed his subject like an epic. I couldn't put it down)

The Mexican Revolution, vol. 2:  Counter-Revolutin and Reconstruction, by Alan Knight  (no, it's not related to the book by M. Gonzalez)

La Batalla de Zacatecas, by Samuel Lopez Salinas

http://www.ojinaga.com/villa/

Celaya is not considered a battle of the Revolution (between the Huertistas or Federales and the Constitutionalists), but rather a battle between two Revolutionary leaders, Villa and Carranza (two Constitutionalist leaders).