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Tejano and Regional Mexican Music |
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With its passionately sung rancheras and accordion-driven conjuntos, its brassy banda and giddy rock grupos, Mexican and Tejano (Tex-Mex) music has long been one of the least-examined regions of so-called world music. So anyone who's ever bought a bag of Tejano cassettes and wondered what they were getting into will find San Antonio Express News music critic Ramiro Burr's encyclopedic overview of it indispensable. Burr begins with a historical synopsis charting Tejano music from its 1930s origins to its 1995 death-of-Selena apex, followed by a too-short chapter titled "The Cultural Impact of Tejano." The meat of the volume, however, is Burr's 300 or so arduously researched entries on Mexican-American music's most significant acts, instruments, and styles--including such unexpected crossovers as Vikki Carr and Eydie Gorme. Conspicuous by their absence are the translated lyrics that would have provided non-Spanish-speaking readers with a concrete notion of what all these emotionally charged crooners are actually singing about. --Richard Gehr
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