Narciso martinez biography definition
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NORTENO & TEJANO
MEXICAN AMERICANS
Mexican Americans are Americans of full or partial Mexican nedstigning. Mexican Americans are the largest Latino ancestral population and one of the fastest-growing ethnic groups in the United States. The Migration Policy Institute estimates that about 25% of foreign-born immigrants are Mexican. U.S. Census Bureau reports from 2010-2019 found that there are approximately 32 million Americans of Mexican heritage, representing 61.5% of all Latino Americans. Seventy-one percent of Mexican Americans were born in the U.S., and 60% reside in California and Texas.In the 1960s and 1970s there was an anti-assimilationist movement by young Mexican-Americans, especially students, to reclaim Mexican culture and identity. They rejected the term Mexican American as assimilationist and a means of "Whitening" and referred to themselves Chicano/a, a term that had previously been used as a slur.
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Tejano music
Music genre fusing Mexican and European influences
Tejano music (Spanish: música tejana), also known as Tex-Mex music, is a popular music style fusing Mexican influences. Its evolution began in northern Mexico (a variation of regional Mexican music known as norteño).[1][2]
It reached a larger audience in the late 20th century with the popularity of Mazz, Selena,[3] and other performers like La Mafia, Ram Herrera, La Sombra, Elida Reyna, Elsa García, Laura Canales, Oscar Estrada, Jay Perez, Emilio Navaira, Esteban "Steve" Jordan, Shelly Lares, David Lee Garza, Jennifer Peña and La Fiebre.[4]
Origins
[edit]Europeans from Germany (first during the Spanish regime in the 1830s), Poland, and Czechia migrated to Texas and Mexico, bringing with them their style of music and dance. They brought with them the accordion, polkas music and dance. Their music influenced the Tejanos. Central to the evolution of early Tejano musi
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Flaco Jiménez with Los Caminantes (the band he made his first recordings with for Rio Records). San Antonio, mid to late 1950s. Photo courtesy the Arhoolie Foundation, all rights reserved.
Welcome to Texas, birthplace and home of Tejano music.
Tejano in Spanish simply means “Texan.” Tejano music, however, is Texas-Mexican (Tex-Mex) music, which encompasses several musical genres, ensembles, and styles of music, as well as a whole industry that sustains thousands of musicians and workers, independent record labels, a vibrant club and dance scene, radio programs and stations, festivals, and a loyal fan base of local and regional people, with a growing following of national and international music lovers.
Even as embattled as Tejano music has been since its beginnings in the mid-1800s in a racist and segregationist society following the Mexican-American War, and in its position amid a mainstream commercial media in the United States that espouses such things as “English only,