Google honored the Mexican Mariachi with its doodle

The most important search engine in the world, Google, on November 24 honored the Mexican Mariachi with its doodle. In the animation of the search engine, what at first glance looks like just a typical Mexican hat turns into a little man dressed in black singing the song “Cielito Lindo”.

After a few minutes of traditional grouping, the video ends with a guitar in the center of the Google logo, very representative of groups of this type. The mariachis in Mexico have become a fundamental part of the culture and an international icon that immediately refers to this country.

According to the Ministry of Culture, to talk about traditional mariachis it is believed that they should be “two or more musicians dressed in regional clothing, inspired by the charro costume, who interpret a wide repertoire of pieces accompanied by string instruments “.

The musicians have a variety of instruments, but the main ones are trumpets, violins, vihuelas and guitars. His songs include genres from various parts of Mexico such as syrups, minuets, polkas, valleys, chotis, waltzes, serenades, corridos. On the other hand, UNESCO pointed out that:

Mariachi music conveys values ​​that promote respect for the natural heritage of Mexican regions and local history, both in Spanish and in the various indigenous languages ​​of the west of the country.

In 2011 it was declared an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations (UN). Its origin, according to the Directorate General of Popular, Indigenous and Urban Cultures, is also Afro-descendant and autochthonous “A symbol of mestizo identity.”

Your musical functions roots of the indigenous peoples of Cora, Wixárika, Nahua, Huichol and Purépecha which contributed to its spread in the states of Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, Michoacán and Zacatecas, an area considered the birthplace of mariachis.

The ethnomusicologist Arturo Chamorro Escalante points out, according to the agency this musical expression has an important contribution from the indigenous peoples in style and technique execution of tools.

The the name “mariachi” has several versions of origin. One of them is the word “marriage” which means marriage in French and refers to the music that has been heard in this and other celebrations.

Another version, according to the agency, is that it comes from “Maria” to designate what was heard during the festivities of the Virgin with that name. Another is that it refers to a stage where the dancers performed their first acts.

But nevertheless, Thanks to the current coronavirus pandemic affecting the whole world, the Mariachis have had to stop their activities. In Mexico City, for example, the emblematic Plaza de Garibaldi, in Mexico City, known throughout the world for the mariachi groups that offer their music, has left play before measures to avoid contagion.

“I’ve never seen (the square) this way, it even looks gloomy. It’s very difficult because we play in living rooms, parties, bars and they have canceled everything “, explained to EFE a mariachi musician, Clara Ramírez, who for 15 years has been going to Garibaldi every day to work.

Even during the pandemic, musicians have been shown to ask the government to provide them with support to survive the ravages of COVID-19.

Currently, in Mexico there are 1,049,358 positive cases Y 101,926 dead caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Also, there are 59,258 suspected cases with the possibility of a negative result of 1,274,269 and a total of 2,716,325 people studied since the first case recorded in the country.

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