Texas-Mexican Conjunto

TEXAS-MEXICAN CONJUNTO. The Texas-Mexican conjunto, a genre of música norteña, has evolved since the turn of the century as an important musical form developed by Texas-Mexican working-class musicians, who adopted the accordion-the main instrument in conjunto music-and the polka from nineteenth-century German settlers in northern Mexico...

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