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The Mexican Hat Dance is a popular name for the dance known as El Jarabe Tapatio in Mexico, usually accompanied by a mariachi. The music contains two songs, like La Raspa, and Jarabe del Atole. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... It has been suggested that Mexican Hat Dance be merged into this article or section. ... For other uses, see Dance (disambiguation). ... Mariachi is a type of musical group, originally from Mexico, consisting of at least two violins, two trumpets, one Spanish guitar, one vihuela (a high-pitched, five-string guitar) and one guitarrón (a small-scaled acoustic bass), but sometimes featuring more than twenty musicians. ... A song is a relatively short musical composition for the human voice (possibly accompanied by other musical instruments), which features words (lyrics). ...

The dance is traditionally done with a man and a woman, both of whom are specially costumed. The two costumes also originate form two time periods which were a hundred years apart. The man wears the Mexican "charro" outfit, which consists of a sombrero, jacket, and pants which were typically lined along the outside of the legs with silver buttons. This came from the influence of the mariachi bands in the 1930s. For the entertainer whose full name is Maria Rosario Pilar Martinez Molina Baeza, see: Charo A Charro is a traditional cowboy of central and northern Mexico. ... Sombrero of Harry S. Truman A sombrero is a type of hat originating in Mexico and worn also in Spain. ... Mariachi is a type of musical group, originally from Mexico, consisting of at least two violins, two trumpets, one Spanish guitar, one vihuela (a high-pitched, five-string guitar) and one guitarrón (a small-scaled acoustic bass), but sometimes featuring more than twenty musicians. ...

The woman's outfit is a short-sleeved blouse and a skirt known as the China Poblana (CHEE-na po-BLA-na) which was the female servant outfit of the early to mid-1800s. Many legends have been attached to the China outfit, including the romantic story about the oriental princess who was sold as a slave in the city of Puebla, who then fell in love with a criollo and created her wedding gown based on the local fashions but decorated with oriental motifs. The truth behind the costume is that once every three months a ship carrying goods from the Philippines known as the "Nao de China" (Ship from China) anchored in Acapulco. The aristocratic ladies purchased a textile known as "castor" to make the skirts for their female servants, called "chinita" or "china". The word is completely disassociated from any oriental background. As the length of this fabric was not enough to reach the floor, an addition of silk was sewn at the top of the skirt to complete the length. La China Poblana was more than a typical dress. ... The Mexican state of Puebla is located in the center of the country, to the east of Mexico City. ... In the Spanish colonial caste system (castas), a criollo was a person of unmixed Spanish ancestry born in the colonies. ... Acapulco (Officially: Acapulco de Juárez) is a city and major sea port in the state of Guerrero on the Pacific coast of Mexico, 300 km (190 miles) southwest from Mexico City, at 16. ... Castor may refer to one of the following. ...

With time and dedication, the women embroidered or applied sequins to highlight the oriental decoration of the fabric. The modern China Poblana's outfit is so covered in sequins that the historic "castor" fabric (Which is only made in Puebla and Mexico City today) can only be seen if you turn the skirt inside out.

Pop Culture References

The Simpsons have featured the song associated with the Mexican Hat Dance numerous times. One episode where Homer has a cell phone that plays the song, which he proceeds to sing along to. Another is where Marge goes to heaven and people are singing and doing the Mexican Hat Dance. It has also been used on a number of occasions to drown out other noise, such as when Homer is arranging to charge Dimoxinil to his company, and in the episode "The Fat and the Furriest," wherein a bear in Homer's hallucination plays the song to drown out the beating he's about to give ("Why does a bear need a crowbar?"). The Simpson family first seen on The Tracey Ullman Show. ... Motorola T2288 mobile phone A mobile phone is a portable electronic device which behaves as a normal telephone whilst being able to move over a wide area (compare cordless phone which acts as a telephone only within a limited range). ...

In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode The Sponge Who Could Fly, in the Patchy the Pirate finale, the tune that the mariachi band plays is the Mexican Hat Dance. SpongeBob SquarePants is a popular American animated television series shown on Nickelodeon, YTV, and Nicktoons Network created by marine biologist and animator, Stephen Hillenburg. ... Brief summary: When Patchy loses the lost episode, he tries to get it back. ... Mariachi is a type of musical group, originally from Mexico, consisting of at least two violins, two trumpets, one Spanish guitar, one vihuela (a high-pitched, five-string guitar) and one guitarrón (a small-scaled acoustic bass), but sometimes featuring more than twenty musicians. ...

References

• album Música mexicana, Mexican Hat Dance track played by Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Enrique Bátiz. Label ASV and Quicksilva.

Enrique Bátiz Campbell (1942), is the principal director of the State of Mexico Symphony Orchestra and principal guest director of the University of Guananjuato Symphony Orchestra. ... The Standard American Edition, Revised Version, more commonly known as the American Standard Version (ASV), is a version of the Bible that was released in 1901. ...

See also

• Mexican Hat