A Texas-Mexican Cancionero

The folksongs of Texas's Mexican population pulsate with the lives of folk heroes, gringos, smugglers, generals, jailbirds, and beautiful women. In his cancionero, or songbook, Amrico Paredes presents sixty-six of these songs in bilingual textalong with their music, notes on tempo and performance, and discography. Manuel Pea's new foreword situates these songs within the main currents of Mexican American music.