norteño
See also: Norteño
English edit
Etymology edit
From Spanish norteño (“Northern [Mexico]”).
Noun edit
norteño (uncountable)
- (music) A genre of Mexican music related to polka and corridos, emerged in the late 19th century.
- Coordinate term: Tejano
- 2000, Simon Broughton, Mark Ellingham, James McConnachie, Orla Duane, World Music: The Rough Guide. Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific, Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 470:
- At a party in an isolated mountain community in central Mexico, the host may well take out his accordion and play norteño corridos until the dawn breaks.
- 2010 April 17, Ayala Ben-Yehuda, “Field of Dreams: Vive Grupero Festival Snares Regional Mexican Artists For Free”, in Billboard, volume 122, number 15, page 8:
- The two-stage festival's lineup reads like a who's who of norteño, duranguense and banda sinaloense acts, including Los Tigres del Norte, Banda el Recodo, Conjunto Primavera, Los Tucanes de Tijuana and K-Paz de la Sierra.
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- norteño (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From norte + -eño. Compare Portuguese nortenho.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
norteño (feminine norteña, masculine plural norteños, feminine plural norteñas)
Derived terms edit
Noun edit
norteño m (plural norteños, feminine norteña, feminine plural norteñas)
- northerner
- Antonym: sureño
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “norteño”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014