Musica Nortena

MÚSICA NORTEÑA. Música norteña grew out of música tejana, or "Tex-Mex music," the music of Mexican Texans. The development of música tejana is in turn interwoven with the history of its people from the 1700s to the present. Without moving from South Texas, Mexican Texans have successively been citizens of Spanish Texas, of Mexican Texas, of the Republic of Texas, of the Confederate States, and of the United States of America...

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