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Texans have pioneered developments in Tejano and Conjunto music, Rock 'n Roll, Western swing, jazz, Piano, punk rock, country, hip-hop, electronic music, gothic industrial music, religious music, mariachi, psychedelic rock, zydeco and the blues.
Texas is the birthplace of Western swing, which incorporates elements of country, blues, pop, big-band jazz and Latin rhythms, and of conjunto, which combines traditional Mexican music with polkas and other European forms.
Apr 21, 2011 · Recently a Boerne woman ruffled some feathers by lobbying the Texas Legislature to declare Western Swing, the durable hybrid of country blues, cowboy songs and Dixieland-derived jazz as...
- Gary Clark Jr. and Leon Bridges are not just nostalgia acts. Inside Fort Worth’s Niles City Sound recording studio, just nine days after the summer’s violent rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, three young high-profile African American musicians gathered to re-record “Ohio”—Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s 1970 protest of the Kent State shootings.
- Dynasties are forming. Entering his thirty-third year of teaching, Houston’s MacArthur High School band director José Antonio Díaz—a member of DownBeat magazine’s Jazz Education Hall of Fame and finalist for the Grammy Foundation’s Music Educator Award—has widened his scope from building up the school’s program to investing in his own nonprofit Díaz Music Institute, where he dreams of building an unprecedented “musical mecca, from cradle to grave.”
- One of Texas’s most interesting DIY music scenes is in Fort Worth. Take note: this is how a scene begins. “My friends and I found this little neighborhood where we could all move in next to each other,” says Fort Worth musician Cameron Smith.
- We can go classical too. To most listeners, Austin’s Graham Reynolds will never have the immediate recognition of someone like Hans Zimmer, the composer who scored instantly recognizable soundscapes for The Dark Knight and Inception.
No less than six uniquely American forms of music—rock-and-roll, conjunto, jazz, blues, Tejano, and western swing—either were invented in or first flourished in the Lone Star State. And yet, there is no singular Texas sound.
Texas music is as diverse as its people. Nineteenth-century immigrants to Texas from the American South, from Mexico, and Europe, shaped a variety of sounds unmatched anywhere else in the...
Today, the music of Texas—which includes Native American music, gospel, blues, ragtime, swing, jazz, rhythm and blues, conjunto, Tejano, Cajun, zydeco, western swing, honky tonk, polkas, schottsches, rock & roll, rap, hip hop and more—reflects the unique cultural dynamics of the Southwest.
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