This article is about music from the state of New Mexico. For the music genre, see New Mexico music.
Overview of music traditions in the U.S. state of New Mexico
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New Mexico is a state of the Southwest United States. The state has music traditions dating back to the ancient Anasazi and Pueblo people, Navajo, Apache, and the Spanish Santa Fe de Nuevo México; these old traditions are found in both their original folk forms and as a modern folk genre known as New Mexico music.
During the 1940s, the town of Clovis was home to the Norman Petty Studios, where Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, and Waylon Jennings recorded.[1] A well-known 1960s group hailing from New Mexico was The Fireballs scoring a #1 Hot 100 hit in 1963 called "Sugar Shack".[2] Native American rock group Xit were signed and recorded Plight of the Redman (1972) and Silent Warrior (1973) for a subsidiary of Motown Records, Rare Earth Records.[3] During the 1970s and 80s, New Mexico musicians Al Hurricane and Al Hurricane Jr. became recognized on the nationally and internationally syndicated Val De La O Show.[4]
The English-language state song of New Mexico is "O Fair New Mexico", adopted by the state legislature in 1917. In 1971, "Así Es Nuevo México" was adopted as the Spanish-language state song. In 1989, the legislature adopted "Land of Enchantment" by Michael Martin Murphey as the official state ballad; and in 1995, the legislature adopted "New Mexico - Mi Lindo Nuevo México" by Pablo Mares as the state's official bilingual state song.[5]
^Lehmer, L. (2003). The Day the Music Died: The Last Tour of Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens. Schirmer Trade Books. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-8256-7287-3. Retrieved September 29, 2014.
^"History". The Fireballs. January 4, 1960. Retrieved September 29, 2014.
^Wright-McLeod, B. (2005). The Encyclopedia of Native Music: More Than a Century of Recordings from Wax Cylinder to the Internet. University of Arizona Press. p. 215. ISBN 978-0-8165-2448-8. Retrieved September 29, 2014.
^DeLaO, V (May 4, 2014). "Entrevista Anthony Quinn". The Val De La O Show. Retrieved September 29, 2014.
^"State Songs". Dianna J Duran - New Mexico Secretary of State. March 25, 2009. Retrieved September 29, 2014.
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