Behind the Green Grove contains a carefully curated selection of texts on Son Jarocho that Ricardo Pérez Montfort has published over the years. Reading them provides a profound understanding of the genre's fundamental elements, as well as a sensitive chronicle of its past and a keen eye on its future. Reflections on such relevant themes as folklore and identity, or celebration and ritual, lay the groundwork for a careful examination of the wide range of expressions that characterize Son Jarocho and its most significant celebration: the fandangos, which, on important occasions like the Fiesta de la Candelaria in Tlacotalpan, acquire their full meaning as a synthesis of a specific way of understanding the world and living life.