| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.3

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Tejano Proud: Tex-Mex Music in the Twentieth Century. By Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002. xv + 192 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95, cloth; $17.95, paper.)

Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr.'s study of musica tejana (music originating in Mexican descent community in Texas) is an outstanding contribution to the growing body of Tejano (Mexican descent Texan) and Mexican American as well as multi-cultural literature. For this reader it was a walk down memory lane, remembering many a Saturday night dancing to the music of Sunny Ozuna, Little Joe, and Rudy and the Reno Bops. Memories of Antonio Aguilar, Flor Sylvestre, Lucha Villa, Agustin Lara, Xavier Cugat, Piporro, and others on the big screen of the Lone Star Drive In and El Capitan theater in Lubbock are still vivid images. All of these entertainers provided a diversity of style and took a role in the transformation of the musica tejana San Miguel describes in chapter two of this book. In northwest Texas, an area not covered by San Miguel, conjuntos (band using accordion sound) were popular headliners in the smaller dancehalls like the Poor Boy in Ralls, but in Lubbock at the Fair Grounds received second billing when playing with orquestas (large band) and vocal singing groups. In the panhandle, the longest opened dancehall is El Fronteriso, which has always been faithful to nothing but the conjunto sound. Chapter two is especially informative with its discussion on the diversity of styles present in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and the transition in musica tejana.

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