| Although usually connected with mariachi, rancheras are performed by all regional Mexican music ensembles. |
| Vargas's raw, rasping voice and intimate arrangements stripped down well-known rancheras, boleros, revolutionary ballads and tangos to leave them as haunting laments, punctuated by waves of tenderness and bitter irony. |
| When she had said her piece, she turned on the cassette player and put in a tape: a woman singing rancheras. |
| From early afternoon, Mexican rancheras blare out from the brothels' loudspeakers. |
