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)
