Conjunto Music

Conjunto music started in Northern Mexico and spread later into South Texas. The video Songs of the Homeland, helped me better understand the culture and traditions of the conjunto music.
You can't help but listen to conjunto music now called Tejano music in South Texas. It may seem like it has changed with the time of the old conjunto or tejano music. The language may sound the same, but the rhythms and beat may have changed a little.

Songs of the Homeland describes how conjunto and tejano music were a way of life to many of the Mexican-American people. To the Mexican cowboys it was a way to get thought the day listening to the music as they worked the long and hard hours on the ranches of South Texas.
It was their music they could relate to and understand as they worked or in the evening sat around listening to the music.

One of the most popular singer's during the 1920's-1940's was a lady by the name of Lydia Mendoza. She was known to many as the singer of the poor. As the years passed by conjunto music has changed into what we call tejano music. During the 1950's tejano music changed with the times bringing in the brass horns and keeping the sound of the accordion in. Later on into the tejano music singers like Freddy Fender and Gary Hobbs, Selena made tejano music popular not only to the Mexican-American listener but to the different ethnic groups that have the same sounds from the accordions and other instruments.

As I watched the video Songs of the Homeland it took me back in the day when I was in high school and my friends and I would sit around and listen to tejano music. I remember enjoying the different sounds and how the singer would get into singing the song emotional.

In conclusion, conjunto or tejano music may have changed a little in the way that the song is being played, but the culture and traditions will be carried on for many more generations to come.