ranchera
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7.4
- noun
- /rænˈtʃɛrə/
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ranchera
- At the end of the workshop, the participants, all MENC members, performed music styles including ranchera, son, and bolero for MENC staff.
- Mexican ranchera
- rancheras and boleros
Examples
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Sometime during the 1950s, different groups added rancheras and boleros to their repertoire.
Academic text (1999) -
Somewhere down the street, a Mexican ranchera played plaintively.
Fiction book (1996) -
Maybe we need to play him a nice ranchera.
Fiction book (1995) -
When asked why he played rancheras, his reply was that this is what people wanted to hear.
Academic text (1996) -
His slow songs were melancholy, like some Mexican ranchera songs.
Academic text (2009) -
When asked what music he preferred, he immediately said rancheras.
Academic text (1996) -
Her favorite songs were rancheras and boleros, but she also liked the new kind of American music called "swing."
Fiction book (1995) -
During breaks, I'd learned how to dance cumbias, rancheras, and salsa.
Fiction book (1998) -
By the end of the decade, the ranchera in conjunction with the polka and the bolero became the core of conjunto music.
Academic text (1999) -
At the celebration, we danced to lively rancheras played by the mariachi band.
How Lively
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ranchera comes from Spanish rancho, meaning 'ranch' or 'camp', and was used for things from the countryside just like the English word ranch. That's why a ranchera song is a lively, emotional Mexican song or dance that celebrates country life and is often sung with mariachi instruments.