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| A folk ensemble that features the sweet falsetto of a male singer accompanied by two guitars and a lively violin |
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| The fusion of cultures that takes place when different ethnic groups meet |
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| Latin Americans of mixed race |
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| Pairs of lines, in song lyrics |
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| a metric type in which the beat alternates between simple triple and compound duple meters |
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| Folk religious dramas in which music plays an important part |
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| A form of mestizo music that refers to a wide variety of different song and dance types |
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| Folk band type that originated in Acapulco that involves a guitar, a smaller guitar called a requinto, and sometimes wind instruments |
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| Folk band from the rural regions around Mexico City that features a violin that plays fast-running figures |
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| Folk band type that originated in the ranches around the Guadalajara; features the guitarron and a pair of trumpets |
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| Distinctive bass instrument of mariachi bands; played by plucking strings with the fingers |
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| Band from the veracruz region known for fast lively dances and songs such as La Bamba |
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| Stamping, boot-tapping dances that go on through to dawn |
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| five-course guitar slightly smaller than the Spanish guitar |
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| A diatonically tuned harp |
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| alternating patterns of up and down strums |
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| bass guitar with six double courses tuned an octave lower than a traditional Spanish guitar |
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| Canciones Revolucionarias |
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| Musica Popular Brasileira |
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| Post bossa nova popular music |
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| Small guitar, whose resonator is traditionally made of an armadillo shell |
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| a lively duple meter dance with a characteristic long-short-short rhythm, often played on a bomba |
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| African-influenced fast duple meter dance |
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| hybrid style combining the Colombian cumbia, Cuban percussion, and North American rock with the local huayno |
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| an open wooden box that a drummer sits on and plays with his or her hands |
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| Stylized martial art dance |
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| Musical bow tapped with a stick and equipped with a half-gourd resonator placed against the chest |
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| Strumming technique in which the fist is opened and then closed over the strings |
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