Mexican: Whats Mariachi and Banda?

Traditional Mexican music can often be defined by the types of ensembles or bands who perform it. Common traditional ensemble types include

Mariachi
Mariachi bands are perhaps the best known traditional ensemble. They are the international face of traditional Mexican music. Mariachi bands originated in the Mexican region of Jalisco in the mid-1800s and were originally, in essence, wedding bands. The popularity of Mariachi ensembles spread quickly throughout Mexico. In 1907, Mariachis began earning an international reputation when the Mexican government chose a Mariachi band to perform for the visiting US Secretary of State.

The golden age of Mariachi music was the 1950s, when the bands were featured in a number of movies. Though Mariachi has never again met those heights, the bands remain internationally popular. Mariachis typically play a number of different traditional genres, including ranchera, polka and corrido.

The video below is an example of mariachi music featuring the singer Luis Miguel, you'll see a huge amount of people behind playing, that's the Mariachi. 

Banda
Banda can refer to a type of ensemble and a genre of music. Bandas are brass band collectives featuring brass, percussion and woodwind instruments. Banda ensembles were once a regional phenomenon. They appeared in Sinaloa in the 1880s and were extremely popular with the influx of Germans who moved into the region during that time. In the early 1900s, however, Bandas' influence spread all over Mexico as well over the border into Texas. This is an example below: 

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Why does Elevators always have the same Music

Have you ever notice how it seems like all the elevators in the world always have the same type of music, and it is even commonly known as a Genre "Elevator Music". Well, there are a few points that explains it.

Elevator music is typically set to a very simple melody so that it can be unobtrusively looped back to the beginning. The dynamic range is also normally reduced, so that the highs and lows do not distract listeners. 

In a mall or shopping center, elevator music of a specific type has been found to have a psychological effect: slower, more relaxed music tends to make people slow down and browse longer. 

This kind of music usually uses the style of smooth jazz genre. 

The major supplier of business background music, and was the best known such supplier for years is Muzak Holdings Corporation.

So, just for you to know, it is all about mind-controlling, or relaxation while shopping.

The effects of that music will be always available and you can play them on portable Bluetooth speaker

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How does the Brain reacts to Music we like.

Researchers from Stanford reported that when listening to a new piece of classical music, different people show the same patterns of synchronized activity in several brain areas, suggesting some level of universal experience. 

The researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to track real-time brain activity as participants listened to the first 30 seconds of 60 unfamiliar songs. To quantify how much they liked the music, 

All of the participants had to listen to the same set of never-heard-before songs, and decide if they would be willing to buy the song. 

19 volunteers who had indicated similar preferences, mostly electronic and indie music. The researchers created a playlist with genre of music of the volunteers liked.

The brain scans highlighted the nucleus accumbens, often referred to as the brain’s ‘pleasure center’, a deep region of the brain that connects to dopamine neurons and is activated during eating, gambling and sex. It turns out that connections between the nucleus accumbens and several other brain areas could predict how much a participant was willing to spend on a given song. Those areas included the amygdala, which is involved in processing emotion, the hippocampus, which is important for learning and memory, and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, which is involved in decision-making.

It all depends on past musical experiences and these previous experiences become on templates.

So why is it that one person might spend $$ on a song while another pans it?  Whether you realize it or not, every time you’re listening to music, you’re constantly activating these templates that you have. Using those musical memory templates, the nucleus accumbens then acts as a prediction machine

This study reveals important information on the way the brain works, and we can infer a lot of things starting on the patterns that the brain show but lets just keep inform on this.

This is a extract. To view the full article: NatGeo

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Genre makes most of the Money

I was wondering that, which genre would be more convenient for making money, then I just started looking for the answer and this is what I found. While there are some websites voted to find that out, others are based on information of 2013. I found this. 

Number Five – Metal: 
This genre sold a total of 31.9 million units in the year 2012, thanks to artists such as Pallbearer (Sorrow and Extinction), Baroness (Yellow & Green) and Asphyx (Deathhammer). It earned about the same amount in 2011, seeing only a 0.3 percent decrease in sales between years. Approximately 11.2 million of its total sales were digital album sales.

Number Four – Country: 
With sales total 44.6 million albums, country music saw a 4.2 percent increase in sales from 2011. Taylor Swift (Red), Jason Aldean (Night Train) and Luke Bryan (Tailgates & Tanlines) were the top-selling country artists for the year. The genre also took in 11.2 million in digital album sales, an impressive 37.8 percent increase from 2011.

Number Three – R&B: 
With 49.7 million album sales in total, Rhythm and Blues saw a 10.2 percent decrease in general sales. But that percentage must have been transferred over to digital sales, which totaled 16.3 million, thanks to a 10.2 percent increase in that category. R&B artists that topped the charts in 2012 include Rihanna (Unapologetic), Chris Brown (Fortune) and Beyoncé.

Number Two – Alternative: 
The genre totaled 52.2 million copies in album sales in 2012.  That is a 4.3 percentage drop compared with sales from 2011, while at the same time digital sales increased by a tidy 9.5 percent. Alternative artists who topped the charts during the year include Mumford & Sons (Babel), The Black Keys (El Camino) and Coldplay (Mylo Xyloto).

Number One – Rock!
The genre sold a whopping total number of 102.5 million albums in 2012, yielding a two percent increase from 2011. The top-selling rock artists of the year include Nickleback (Here & Now), Linkin Park (Living Things) and Van Halen (A Different Kind of Truth).

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