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1	"Despedida con Mariachi": The Musical Mediation of Masculine Grief in Mexican Immigrant Funerals Domínguez, Lizeth C. 12 1900 (has links) Music plays an important role in Mexican funeral ceremonies, acting as a vehicle for men to acceptably express emotions of bereavement. As an important symbol of mexicanidad (Mexicanness), mariachi music is often used in traditional Catholic funerals, ritualizing grief equally as a mourning of loss and a celebration of the life of a deceased person. Although a form of popular music, mariachi's secular songs go through a process of sacralization, becoming meaningful sites for experiencing grief. As a musical expression of Mexico's idealized gender norms mariachi opens an aesthetic sphere for masculine grief to be expressed, experienced, and socialized in an acceptable form. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the musical mediation of masculine grief, experienced and ritualized within funeral ceremonies, and observed through an ethnographic study of Mexican immigrant communities. mariachi ritual grief masculine grief Mexican funeral funeral music mexicanidad Mexicanness Mariachi. Funeral music -- Mexico. Grief in men. Academic theses