Texas-Mexican music, or "musica""""tejana"," " is not one single music but several musical and musico-literary genres, ensembles, and their styles, encompassing the "corrido"," ""cancion"," " and what author Manuel Pena calls the "cancion-corrido"."" Musica tejana also includes two major regional ensembles and their styles--the "conjunto" and the Texas-Mexican version of the "orquesta"."" A more recent crop of synthesizer-driven ensembles and their styles, known since the mid-eighties as "Tejano," is another representative of musica tejana.
Despite their diversity, these various...

Texas-Mexican music, or musica tejana, is not one single music but several musical and musico-literary genres, ensembles, and their styles, encompassing the corrido, cancion, and what author Manuel Pena calls the cancion-corrido. Musica tejana also includes two major regional ensembles and their styles-the conjunto and the Texas-Mexican version of the orquesta. A more recent crop of synthesizer-driven ensembles and their styles, known since the mid-eighties as "Tejano," is another representative of musica tejana. Despite their diversity, these various ensembles, genres, and styles share two...

A century after the first wave of Hispanic settlement in Houston, the city has come to be known as the Hispanic mecca of Texas. Arnoldo De Leon s classic study of Hispanic Houston, now updated to cover recent developments and encompass a decade of additional scholarship, showcases the urban experience for Sunbelt Mexican Americans.
De Leon focuses on the development of the barrios in Texas largest city from the 1920s to the present. Following the generational model, he explores issues of acculturation and identity formation across political and social eras. This contribution to community...

In "Mexican American Odyssey, " Thomas H. Kreneck not only traces the influential life of Houston entrepreneur and civic leader Felix Tijerina as an individual but illustrates how Tijerina reflected many trends in Mexican American development during the decades he lived, years that were crucial for the Hispanic community today. Kreneck outlines a pattern of identity and assimilation that has been traced in bold, broader terms by other scholars, who have called Tijerina's contemporaries the "Mexican American Generation."
Felix Tijerina was born in 1905 in Mexico, although he publicly...