What does El Mariachi mean in english?
Obviously el mean the, but what is maraichi mean in english?
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The word mariachi doesn't have a clear history or etimology, some scholors believe it come from the Nahuatl(language of the Aztecs), others believe it comes from a french word, due to the influence of the french in their short invasion of Mexico, either way , its original meaning was to describe someone unruly, a person of riots, in other words , a persons that gets drunk(ussually but not nessesarilly) at the cantina( bar), and serenades his loved woman with folklore love music in the middle of the night, u can imagine the reaction of the sleeping neighbors, and better yet of stuckup spanish and french azshole colonizers. this of course is the original sense of the word. Now it is a person or group that dresses in the distinctive suit and sings or plays mexican folklore music, a.k.a. "rancheras". They aren't limited to just guitar, a mariachi band includes trompets, a bass guitar, violins, little guitars, and a true original mariachi also includes a harp.
shareEl Mariachi it is thought that the word originated in the language of the Coca Indians in the early 1500's. The word may have been used to refer to any musician.
The most appropriate modern definition would be "Mexican Folk Musician." Used in a different context, the word could also have been used to refer to a group of such musicians.
El Mariachi Another theory held that the word referred to the wooden platform on which the musicians would often play, which came from the Pilla or Cirimo tree.
No-one knows for sure where it came from or what its true meaning was. Different people use it for different uses.
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El Mariachi in english is "The Mariachi"
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No Webster's dictionary explanation, no wikipedia crap. "El Mariachi" is The Mariachi...or you can say mary-ah-chee. Like tortilla or taco...don't read too much into it, folks.
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just like El Nino in english is The Nino
shareit means the mariachi duh
a mariachi is like a mexican musician
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Mariachi does not have a real or traditional english translation and guitar player in spanish is guitarista and muscian is musico!!! Take it from me spanish is my first language!
shareMany words don't have direct translations. Mariachis generally play a guitar, but also play other instruments; and a real Mariachi plays a particular type of Mexican music. For example if a Mexican national played death-metal on the guitar he would not be a Mariachi.
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**if a Mexican national played death-metal on the guitar**
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I was told the French word "marriage" (ma-ri-aa-je) meaning "wedding" has a lot to do with it. Might as well be possible, since these artists performed at weddings and the French have been present in Mexico for a while.
Then, Mariachi could be a Wedding Singer/Musician.
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El Mariachi, doesn't mean musician or guitar player only, it means a person who play a specific kind of music. Tradicional real mexican music. Not the stuff that wrongly most americans think is Mexican. Everything that has acordeon was made by mexicans who went to USA and started that style only 30 years ago. Now the real mexican music is that one that a mariachi plays.
Real mariachis play with guitar, violin, harp, trompet or Guitarron(big guitar I don't know what is call in English). In Mexico we like Mariachi and hate acordeon music, just as much as you hate it in USA. Only Mexicans who inmigrate to USA like that kind music because in their lyrics acordeon music mostly talks about inmigration, drugs and racism.
Mariachi is Mexican, also a mariachi has to be dressed like antonio banderas in the movies, not like a cowboy wannabe.
Believe me, in Mexico we hate that acordeon stuff coz it gives a bad image of the real traditional mexico. Mariachi rocks, while acordeon polka music blows.
A Mariachi plays Mariachi, a type of music only really played in Mexico
shareHaha, I love accordion music, but I associate it in no way with Mexico.
sharei don't feel like reading through all these. means The Guitar Player
shareNot really. Mariachis can play various instrutments.
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chaconmcfly speaks a lot of crap-
In Mexico we don't "hate" accordeon music. First of all "accordeon music" means a lot of things--there is norteño, ranchero, corrido, etc. Secondly, it wasn't invented by Mexicans that went to the USA and "brought it back 30 years ago"...the accordeon was originally brought to the country by German immigrants from both Europe and the USA beginning in the late 19th century. The genres fused and a new style of folk music was born.
Further, the topics of the song just aren't about "immigration (WTF is wrong with singing about that?), drugs (They're there...deal with it.) and racism (?)". That's like saying that Rock N Roll music ONLY tackles "sex, drugs and alcohol". It's stupidly innacurate. Romance, social issues, humor, horses, among other subjects are sung about by different groups throughout the decades, and throughout the continent.
Also, I really do think you have some major guts to be speaking for two entire countries when you just say that "we hate" it "as much as you do." In the USA, people tend to be unfamiliar with the genres, and in Mexico most people are not preppy prisses (fresas) that mouth off on the internet. This is why our northern neighbors don't know much about us--because of the nonsense that people like you merrily spread as universal dogma.
Sod off.
On Topic: El Mariachi means The Mariachi, which is ONE of the many musical folk genres of the country (we have many folk genres, all great, just as we have all manner of immigrant groups from Europe). It is not "The Guitar Player" either. A Mariachi band consists of all manners of strings, horns and even the occasional keyboard.
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