Texas Mexican Music

At the Southwestern Writers Collection

The Southwestern Writers Collection has actively pursued the acquisition of books, videos, ephemera, sound recordings, and archival material that document the vitality and significance of Texas Mexican Music in all its varieties.

The collection contains some 12,000 songs recorded by Mexican Americans from the 1920s to the 1980s-- though the recordings have not yet been organized and cataloged. Abundant primary source research material into Tejano music is available in the archives of Joe Nick Patoski, who wrote the definitive biography of slain Tejano superstar Selena and has written about all varieties of Texas music for many years. In 1999 the Southwestern Writers Collection obtained the editorial archives of Hispanic Magazine, which promise much additional material relating to Tejano music.

The Compact Disks pictured above can be ordered from Arhoolie Productions.

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