Ranchera is a type of music.
Songs are usually in a major key, and consist of an instrumental introduction, verse and refrain, instrumental section repeating the verse, and another verse and refrain, with a tag ending
 Das mexikanische quivalent zur Country and Western Music aus historischer, musikalischer und kommerzieller Sicht (Msica ranchera: El equivalente mexicano de la msica country y la msica del Oeste) (Musikethnologische Sammelbnde 14)

