sonidero

The entire sonidero is recorded and then turns up on the streets as a bootleg disc.

Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

The entire sonidero is recorded and then turns up on the streets as a bootleg disc.

Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

The entire sonidero is recorded and then turns up on the streets as a bootleg disc.

Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

One of Santero's earliest memories is roaming through Central America with his father, a singer from El Salvador, where sonidero DJs were a common sight, traveling on flatbed trucks that roll into town with a bunch of homemade speakers, microphones and turntables.

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The sonidero culture is closely tied to the San Judas and Santa Muerte cults, but my understanding is limited compared to the work of others, including Mariana Delgado and the team behind the Proyecto Sonidero, ethnomusicologist Cathy Ragland see “Under the Musical Spell of the Sonidero; Mexican D.J.’s Relay Messages, on Dance Floor and to the Homeland,” New York Times, November 22, 2003, and the work of tepiteño cultural producers and local historians.

Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

The sonidero culture is closely tied to the San Judas and Santa Muerte cults, but my understanding is limited compared to the work of others, including Mariana Delgado and the team behind the Proyecto Sonidero, ethnomusicologist Cathy Ragland see “Under the Musical Spell of the Sonidero; Mexican D.J.’s Relay Messages, on Dance Floor and to the Homeland,” New York Times, November 22, 2003, and the work of tepiteño cultural producers and local historians.

Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

The sonidero culture is closely tied to the San Judas and Santa Muerte cults, but my understanding is limited compared to the work of others, including Mariana Delgado and the team behind the Proyecto Sonidero, ethnomusicologist Cathy Ragland see “Under the Musical Spell of the Sonidero; Mexican D.J.’s Relay Messages, on Dance Floor and to the Homeland,” New York Times, November 22, 2003, and the work of tepiteño cultural producers and local historians.

Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011