Mexican Rock ?

Is there such a thing? Just as true as the other music genres Mexico has assimilated and developed in peculiar ways, from classical to jazz, from merengue to mambo, from twist to rock n' roll, from disco to thrash, I cannot think of a style that mexican musicians, past or present, haven't took a try at. Once the great luthier Carlos Carvajal told me:'...it was easy for mexicans working in the United States to relate to the blues, they were subjected to the same conditions as coloured people, and, like them, treated as slaves in their own countries'. A jazz culture also developed during the fifties and people like drummer Tino Contreras reflected stylistic evolutions parallel to the vertiginous changes that were taking place in N.Y. City or Chicago. The invention of the 13th Sound by Julian Carrillo clearly revolutionized the modern classical world notions of a 'tempered scale' and the 'chewing gum and ice-cream shop' movies of Enrique Guzman put a low-rent naivete in vogue among a certain class, surpassing even their american models. The era of the mammoth festivals was sublimely echoed by the great 'Festival de Avandaro', that featured for some days the very best mexican groups of the sixties onstage and thousands of young people living in hippie abandon. At some point, during the dark eigthies, it was said that the only true 'punks' in existence were those parading their 'spleen' and mohawks every saturday at 'El Chopo' music market. The plastic splendor of disco and later a 'decadently chic' rave scene were there, available for those 'mystics of the moving body'. And, didn't the 'slam dance sessions' that coagulated during the early nineties brought everything and everyone to a 'concrete' finale?"