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available wherever you get your podcasts. When I was a teenager, I spent a summer playing drums

with my uncle's accordion, Conjunto. That's a small musical group that includes guitar,

bass, drums, and of course, an accordion. We played standard Mexican bar music,

cumbias, boleros, corridos, lots of corridos. You know, nowadays the record industry would

refer to my uncle's band as regional Mexican music. In fact, it now has its own Grammy and

Latin Grammy categories. There is an entire radio industry built around it.

It is quickly outpacing reggaeton as the most streamed genre of Spanish language music,

and yet it is barely noticed outside of the millions of fans who call it their own.

It's like it's hiding in plain sight.

From NPR Music, this is Alt Latino.

I'm Felix Contreras.

And this week on this Cinco de Mayo,

we're going to take a deep dive into Mexican regional music.

What does it sound like?

Who listens to it?

And how is it that it gets more popular year by year?

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