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Texas Towns & Tex-Mex Sounds
Los Texmaniacs
Texas Towns & Tex-Mex Sounds
Genres: International Music, Latin Music
 
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Los Texmaniacs stand at a major crossroads in the history of Texas Mexican musical tradition. The beginnings of their careers were rooted in a time of the music's heightened social relevance & creative expansion. The n...  more »

     
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All Artists: Los Texmaniacs
Title: Texas Towns & Tex-Mex Sounds
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Smithsonian/Folkways
Release Date: 7/31/2012
Genres: International Music, Latin Music
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Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 093074056523

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Los Texmaniacs stand at a major crossroads in the history of Texas Mexican musical tradition. The beginnings of their careers were rooted in a time of the music's heightened social relevance & creative expansion. The new social relevance came from the embrace of the button accordion driven Tejano sound by the Chicano civil-rights movement in the '60s & '70s. The music became a means of resistance to social discrimination & a cultural symbol for building unity among Mexican Americans. It became part of the 'soundtrack' opposing the Vietnam War & other notable struggles.

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