![]() The song would become a favorite of big bands for the next two decades.ġ934 Lydia Mendoza’s torch song, “Mal Hombre,” becomes a nationwide hit on Mexican radio stations. Time to the pairing of Fred Astaire with Ginger Rogers but also introduced the song “Carioca” written by Vincent Youmans. The Hermanos Bañuelos record “El Deportado,” (The Deported One).ġ930 Roberto Rodríguez and Clemente Mendoza record “Adelita,” one of the earliest recordings of conjunto music from South Texas.ġ931 Don Azpiazu follows up his hit of “The Peanut Vendor” with “Green Eyes” which also becomes a national hit.ġ931 Alfredo Brito, another Cuban transplant to New York, adds to the growing popularity of Cuban music in the United States with his hit, “Canto Siboney,” recorded with his Siboney Orchestra.ġ933 The RKO pictures production of “Flying Down to Rio” not only introduced American audiences for the first It is estimated that in the years between 19 more than 500,000 people will be deported, many of them American citizens of Mexican descent for whom Mexico is a foreign country. The producer is taken, in particular, by one of Don Azpiazu’s songs, “El Manisero” He invites Don Azpiazu to New York where it is recorded and released under its English name, “The Peanut Vendor.” The song becomes an instant hit, starting a craze for Cuban music in the United States.ġ930 With a massive economic depression in the United States, local authorities in Southwest cities begin to deport Spanish surnamed people to Mexico as part of a “repatriation” program. She begins touring the Southwest and soon become the first female star of Mexican American music.ġ926 Los Hermanos Bañuelos record “El Lavaplatos” (The Dishwasher) whose lyrics include reference to the “Chicanos,” arguably the first time the word is used in print in the United States.ġ928 “El Choclo” introduces Americans to the Argentine Tango.ġ929 Cuban orchestra leader Don Azpiazu is “discovered” at the Havana Casino, Havana, Cuba by a New York music producer. ![]() Later it will merge with the Knights of America to form the League of United Latin American Citizens.ġ926 In Texas, Lydia Mendoza performs with her family group, El Cuarteto Carta Blanca, and then on her own. The inability of Pershing to find Villa is later celebrated in the Mexican corrido (ballad) “Nuestro Mexico Febrero 23.”ġ921 El Orden Hijos de América (Order of the Sons of America) a Mexican American civil rights organization is created to fight discrimination and advance education, is formed in San Antonio, Texas. After ten months in Mexico, General Pershing is unsuccessful in finding Villa. ![]() In retaliation, the United States sends an expeditionary force of 12,000 men under General John “Blackjack” Pershing to capture Villa. His exploits are recorded in the border ballad “El Corrido de Gregorio Cortéz.”ġ910 “El Corrido de Jacinto Treviño” another border ballad, highlights the conflict between Mexican Americans and the Texas Rangers, who are known as “Los Rinches” As with Gregorio Cortéz, the hero of this ballad, Jacinto Treviño, defends himself against the Texas Rangers with a gun in his hand–a key component to many of the border corridos of this period.ġ916 Mexican General Pancho Villa, with a force of 485 men, raids the border town of Columbus, New Mexico, killing 14 Americans. Cortéz is eventually captured, tried by an all-Anglo jury and sentenced to prison. Mark Guerrero’s Chicano Music Chroniclesġ900 Gregorio Cortéz, a Tejano, kills a deputy who attempts to arrest him unjustly and flees for his life.
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