Description
The folksongs of Texas’s Mexican population pulsate with the lives of people heroes, gringos, smugglers, generals, jailbirds, and lovely ladies. In his cancionero, or songbook, Américo Paredes items sixty-six of those songs in bilingual textual content—in conjunction with their music, notes on tempo and function, and discography. Manuel Peña’s new foreword situates these songs inside the principle currents of Mexican American music.