Valona (song)

The valona is a popular narrative song- and poetry-form of the Mexican state of Michoacán.^[1] Its main characteristics are a bitter sense of humor, bawdy content, and social concerns. The lyrics of a Valona are composed as groupings of ten-line strophes, each line made up of eight syllables; musically, all valonas are sung (in fact, almost recited) to just a single tune, with an instrumental refrain after each strophe, which can vary.

As a narrative popular genre, the valona is literarily and musically related to the Mexican corrido. In a broader stylistic sense, it is akin with other Mexican genres composed in ten minor-verse strophes (décimas or espinelas), such as some huapangos and the son arribeño, along with certain other Latin American genres, such as the Chilean run-run and the rhapsodes of the Argentine payadores.

References

^ González, Raúl Eduardo (July–December 2001). ""Otro ratito nomás": La creación de valonas en los concursos de música y danza tradicionales en Apatzingán, Michoacán" (PDF). Revista de Literatureas Populares. 1 (2): 135–146.

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[1] González, Raúl Eduardo (July–December 2001). ""Otro ratito nomás": La creación de valonas en los concursos de música y danza tradicionales en Apatzingán, Michoacán" (PDF). Revista de Literatureas Populares. 1 (2): 135–146.

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