The Mexican American Experience, a radio program produced by the Longhorn Radio Network, includes interviews, music, and informational programs related to the Mexican American community and their concerns. Program summary: Host Armando Gutierrez discusses the development of Chicano Music and offers several examples of the different styles that have evolved over the years. Here he emphasizes musicians who incorporate jazz, amplifiers, big band and even polka rhythms. Gutierrez first discusses the corrido and its basic elements, including its instrumentation and narrative structure and he plays a clip of the song El Gato Negro. Gutierrez then explains that some Chicano music incorporated elements of other American music styles, including jazz, and increased the beat to make the songs more conducive to dancing. Other groups, such as Los Chachos, have experimented with the accordion and tried to make new sounds with the instrument, sometimes by connecting it to an amplifier. Keywords: Accordion, Al Echevarria, Chicano Music, Conjunto, Conjunto Bernal, Corpus Christi, Corrido, Dance Music, El Buque de Mas Potencia, El Gato Negro, Harmonic Accordion, Horns, Jazz, Los Chachos, Los Fabulosos Cuatro, Mayo, Musical diversity, Polka, Rio Grande Valley, Roberto Pulido y Los Classicos, San Antonio, Saxophone, Si a caso vuelvas, South Texas, The Royal Jesters, Trumpets, Y Andale. Broadcast date: 1978-06-07.
Creator/Contributor:
Longhorn Radio Network (creator) and Gutiérrez, Armando (host)
Date Created/Date Issued:
6/6/1978
Owning Repository:
Benson Latin American Collection, LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections, The University of Texas at Austin