Serrano del Corazón featuring Guillermo Velázquez y Los Leones de la Sierra de Xichú

Serrano del Corazón featuring Guillermo Velázquez y Los Leones de la Sierra de Xichú presents huapango arribeño, a music and dance genre with origins in the highland regions of Guanajuato, Querétaro, and San Luis Potosí, in north-central México. This genre is a complex blend of poetic narrative singing with lively string music and dance, performed in secular, religious, and competitive contexts. Rooted in the Huasteca region, the huapango arribeño is a little-known performance tradition that has been overlooked in the scholarly literature. Due to twentieth-century nationalist discourses that elevated certain regional musics (e.g., son jalisciense) popularized through films, recordings, and radio broadcasts, the huapango arribeño remained relatively unknown.