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Traditional Mexican Music Gets a Jolt of Electricity

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This story traces its inspiration to a kind of music made popular by the 1958 Ritchie Valens song, "La Bamba." But what you might not know is that this song comes from a very old Mexican musical genre, the Son Jarocho. But now, it's being transformed, inspired in part by a new generation of California musicians. KALW's Julie Caine visited one of them at his San Francisco studio.

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