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The Texas-Mexican ConjuntoHistory of a Working-class Music\nAuthor(s): Manuel Pea\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Texas Press, United States\nImprint: University of Texas Press\nISBN-13: 9780292780804, 978-0292780804\nSynopsis\nAround 1930, a highly popular and distinctive type of accordion music, commonly known as conjunto, emerged among Texas-Mexicans. Manuel Pea's The Texas-Mexican Con;unto is the first comprehensive study of this unique folk style. The author's exhaustive fieldwork and personal interviews with performers, disc jockeys, dance promoters, recording company owners, and conjunto music lovers provide the crucial connection between an analysis of the music itself and the richness of the culture from which it sprang. \n\n Using an approach that integrates musicological, historical, and sociological methods of analysis, Pea traces the development of the conjunto from its tentative beginnings to its preeminence as a full-blown style by the early 1960s. Biograp.