MetaFilter posts tagged with mexico and culture

Mexican aerophones

dhruva — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:28:08 -0800

Mexican Aerophones are wind musical instruments or artifacts that can generate sounds or noise with air jets and one or several resonator chambers of globular, tubular and other shapes. Roberto Velasquez, a mechanical engineer, has recreated some of these aerophones. Example sounds: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (.wav files)

I bring to your window beautiful songs.

amyms — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:49:26 -0800

The Serenader. Roberto’s long moon-shadow stretches absurdly across the walls of the house as he plucks prettily at his guitar while his drunk client swaggers like a cat... Like many men in San Cristóbal, Roberto holds two jobs. At night he plays and sings the love songs that men use to woo women; in the day he teaches guitar to young men who may someday be his competition. Of the two jobs, serenading is far more lucrative.

Brown is the New White

Stynxno — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:33:02 -0800

B is for Beaner. ironic t shirts are cross cultural. [via tex[t]-mex]

Nueva Orleans

ColdChef — Tue, 09 May 2006 10:35:05 -0800

Nueva Orleans Before Katrina, Hispanics accounted for 3 percent of New Orleans’ population, with just 1,900 Mexicans showing up in the 2004 Census. No one knows for certain how many new ones have arrived, but estimates put the number between 10,000 and 50,000.

Of matrícula accounts and ITIN loans

kliuless — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:49:11 -0800

Embracing Illegals: Companies are getting hooked on the buying power of 11 million undocumented immigrants - The Underground Labor Force Is Rising To The Surface [pdf]

All Things Muertos

moonbird — Fri, 31 Oct 2003 14:38:01 -0800

The Mexican tradition of Dia de los Muertos, "Day of the Dead."