over three million records. In 2006 several members left Grupo Montéz to form their own group, Los Creadores del Pasito Duranguense. Bibliography S. Hutchinson : From Quebradita to Duranguense: Dance in Mexican American Youth Culture (Tucson, AZ, 2007) H. Simonett : “Quest for the Local: Building Musical Ties between Mexico and the United States,” Postnational Musical Identities. Cultural Production, Distribution and Consumption in a Globalized Scenario , ed. I. Corona and A.L. Madrid (Lanham, MD, 2008), 119–35
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Recodo and Banda La Costeña furthermore began to emphasize the visual and the verbal and shifted their musical repertory toward the more universally appealing danceable cumbia and the romantic balada. Bibliography H. Simonett : Banda: Mexican Musical Life across Borders (Middletown, CT, 2001) H. Simonett : En Sinaloa nací: Historia de la música de banda (Mazatlán, Mexico, 2004)
