Maximiano Rosales and Rafael Herrera Robinson. An odd pair in Mexican popular music

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https://doi.org/10.53897/RevInterp.2025.04.03

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Biography, Lyrics , Popular Songs , Mexico

Abstract

The text addresses the biography and musical career of Maximiano Rosales (1868-1927) and Rafael Herrera Robinson (1866-1945), popular musicians born in Mexico City, interpreters of the Mexican popular lyric of the early twentieth century.

 

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Author Biography

Alvaro Ochoa Serrano, El colegio de Michoacán

Email: aochoa@colmich.edu.mx
Researcher affiliated with El Colegio de Michoacán/Radio Tzirondaru, A.C. Member of SNII II. Project: Popular figures and traditions of Mexico. Some of his publications: Manual del Mariachi. Ministry of Culture. Government of the State of Jalisco, 2023. “Chapala, otra cuna del mariachi” in Rodrigo de la Mora Pérez Arce (Coordinator), Mariachi. Musical practice and community building. The College of Jalisco, Ministry of Culture. Government of the State of Jalisco, 2023. And La Ciénega de Chapala. A quartet of texts afloat. Center for the Study of the Mexican Revolution, Librería del Portal and Editorial Morevalladolid, 2023.

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Published

2025-09-24

How to Cite

Ochoa Serrano, A. (2025). Maximiano Rosales and Rafael Herrera Robinson. An odd pair in Mexican popular music. Interpretextos Revista Semestral De creación Y divulgación De Las Humanidades (Colima), 2(4), 51–67. https://doi.org/10.53897/RevInterp.2025.04.03