"I was the only brown person at the whole party," Gonzales says. Video producer Kathryn Gonzales rediscovered the grito at a 2014 Day of the Dead party in west Texas. "When you finally release the last gasp of air, there's relief," Gutierrez says. And belting out a great grito feels really good. "They're like small narrative capsules, without the narrative that are full of layers of emotion," Gutierrez says. Laura Gutierrez teaches Mexican performance studies at the University of Texas. Others, you know, we just do the best we can." "When they hear mariachi music, whether it's because of sorrow or because of joy, they do these gritos, these yells." Castro says his students do a much better grito than he does. "The Mexicans are very emotional people," says Castro. He is also director of the school's mariachi ensemble and teaches about mariachi culture. Ezekiel Castro is a lecturer at the University of Texas Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music. If they want to keep working on their gritos, these kids may have a chance in college. They sound like lion cubs learning how to roar. Third graders Leo Garcia, Jose Jaimes, Mario Flores and Angelita Alivter Cardenas show me their gritos. "It is not part of the curriculum necessarily but I know a lot of them do already know how," she says. Their teacher, Angela Machado, is too busy teaching them chords and song lyrics to teach them gritos. Like many schools in Texas, students at Perez Elementary school in Austin have the opportunity to learn and perform mariachi music. Angela Machado and her third-grade class perform at the University of Texas's Cinco de Mayo festivities.
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