Tarascan Mexico / Various

The songs and dances heard today in Mexico are a complex mixture, with their origins in both indigenous and European music. That music was a vigorous art prior to the arrival of the Spaniards may be inferred from the impressive collections of pre-Columbian musical instruments to be seen in museums throughout the world. Music held a far more important place in ancient Mexico than in many contemporaneous cultures in other parts of the world... Charles M. Bogert and Martha R. Bogert.