found: Work cat: Tributo a Tomás Méndez, 2003insert (Méndez emerged as a composer with the ranchera song (canción ranchera) Gorrioncillo pecho amarillo) (DLC)2003696438
found: All music guide WWW site, Feb. 12, 2010(Ranchera: the literal definition of the term is a ranch song; they were sung in Mexico between acts of nation centered plays, and became quite commercially oriented after 1910. Rancheras: very powerful songs expressing sentimentally associated with a person's love for their country)
found: Wikipedia WWW site, Feb. 12, 2010(Ranchera is a genre of the traditional music of Mexico. Although closely associated with the mariachi groups which evolved in Jalisco in the post-revolutionary period, rancheras are also played today by norteño (or Conjunto) or banda (or Duranguense) groups; traditional rancheras are about love, patriotism or nature)
found: Garland encyc. world musicp. 101 ("...ranchera regionally based genre of mexico...")