3 May 2023

Tex Mex Music with Kirsten Zemke

From Nine To Noon, 11:05 am on 3 May 2023
Album covers and bands

Photo: Wikipedia, YouTube

Kirsten joins Kathryn to look at the Tex Mex genre of music, also known as Tejano. It's a blended music mix developed in Texas and Northern Mexico, influenced by waltzes and polkas brought by the European migrants to those areas in the 1800s. 

Kirsten Zemke is an ethnomusicologist at the University of Auckland's School of Social Sciences.