| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.3

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Book Review

The Roots of Texas Music. Edited by Lawrence Clayton and Joe W. Specht. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2003. vii + 235 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $29.95.)

If not a keystone, Texas ranks at least an important structural support in the foundational history of American popular music. Sure, the cattle-oriented state has produced its share of cowboy ballads, but it has also been home to blues and jazz giants Blind Lemon Jefferson and Charlie Christian. Strong honky-tonk and western swing traditions grew up in the Lone Star State, but so too did rich Tejano, or Mexican-Texan, traditions including the corrido (ballad) and the conjunto (band or musical style). Immigrant Germans, Poles, and Czechs furthermore contributed to the diversity of the Texas musical landscape with polkas, waltzes, and other Central and Eastern European fare.

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