Between Norteño and Tejano Conjunto

Luis Díaz-Santana Garza

doi:10.5771/9781793638991

Summary

Between Norteño and Tejano Conjunto analyzes the origin, evolution, and dissemination of the norteño and tejano conjunto. This group represents a marginalized local identity that was transformed primarily into an identity of the northeast. It then gave way to the whole of northern México and the American Southwest, and was later assimilated internationally as a mainstream genre. This book provides a long-term historic vision of conjunto and the various musical forms it uses, such as polka, corrido, or canción (song), and, more recently, bolero and cumbia, as well as its transformations and contributions to other musical cultures.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-3898-4
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-3899-1
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 162
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
1. Culture, Popular Culture, and Popular Music No access
1. Pre-Columbian Times and the First European Settlers No access
2. Transformation and Adaptation to the Environment No access
3. Between Mysticism and Weapons No access
4. A Sensitive Issue: Native Americans No access
5. From Provinces to Independent States No access
6. The Short-Lived Republics of the North No access
7. The Border: From Celluloid to the National Imaginary No access
8. Economic and Industrial Development in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries No access
1. Mexican Acoustic Traditions No access
2. The Border: Regional Identity vs. National Identity No access
3. Wars and Trade as a Pretext for Migrant Music No access
4. Military and Rural Bands, the Típica Orchestras, and Other Groups No access
5. The Montañeses del Álamo: Heralds of Norteño Conjunto No access
6. We Sing in Spanish (and in English!): Language as a Generator of Identity No access
1. European Music in America No access
2. Accordion and Bajo Sexto: Symbols and Cultural Unifiers No access
3. Pioneers of Conjunto No access
4. The Recording Industry or the Commodification of Traditions and Art No access
5. Early Radio, the Phonograph’s Competitor No access
6. The Spaces of Dissemination for Conjunto: From Cantinas to Ballrooms No access
1. Innovations of the Post-War Period: Instruments, Crossover, and Bailes No access
2. Women in Conjunto No access
3. The Chicano Movement and Regional Musical Pride No access
4. Representation of Norteño and Tejano in the Collective Imaginary No access
1. Conjunto in Cinema No access
2. Influence of the American Mainstream in Tejano Conjunto No access
3. Cumbia! A Pan-American musical genre No access
4. Onda grupera, or the power of musical marketing No access
5. From Christian Musicians in the US to the Rise of the Narcocorrido in Mexico No access
Conclusions No access Pages 123 - 128
Glossary of Musical Terms No access Pages 129 - 130
A Selection of Recorded Music No access Pages 131 - 134
A Selection of Norteño/Tejano Performers No access Pages 135 - 136
Interviews No access Pages 137 - 138
Newspapers No access Pages 139 - 140
Archives No access Pages 141 - 142
Bibliography No access Pages 143 - 156
Index No access Pages 157 - 160
1. Previous Publications No access