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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Schulze, Peter W.
• Barham, Jeremy

Titel

Songs Beyond "El Rancho Grande": Trans/national and cross-media dimensions in the Mexican Comedia Ranchera

Ist Teil von

• The Routledge Companion to Global Film Music in the Early Sound Era, 2024, p.623-633

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The Comedia Ranchera has been aptly called "the Mexican cinema par excellence," not only for the fact that it was the prevailing genre in Mexico from the late 1930s for almost two decades, but also due to its pivotal role in the construction of a national imaginary based on the exaltation of rural folklore, especially in the form of ranchera songs. This chapter analyzes the development of Comedia Ranchera and traces the cross-media interconnections as well as the trans/national dimensions of the genre. Alla en el Rancho Grande can be considered the matrix of the Comedia Ranchera: a markedly Mexican film genre revolving around melodramatic conflicts of heterosexual love and male friendship in the folkloric realm of an idyllic hacienda, abundant with musical interludes sung by charros and occasional comical scenes. The enormous success of Alla en el Rancho Grande triggered the production of similar films, resulting in emergence of a new genre and consolidation of the incipient Mexican film industry. The Comedia Ranchera has been aptly called "the Mexican cinema par excellence," not only for the fact that it was the prevailing genre in Mexico from the late 1930s for almost two decades but also due to its pivotal role in the construction of a national imaginary based on the exaltation of rural folklore, especially in the form of ranchera songs. This chapter analyzes the development of Comedia Ranchera and trace the cross-media interconnections as well as trans/national dimensions of the genre.