Institute of Texan Cultures celebrates San Antonio’s indigenous musical form with new exhibit


“Puro Conjunto: Border(less) Sound,” the latest exhibition at the UT-San Antonio Institute of Texan Cultures, celebrates a distinctly Texan genre born of global migration and creative co-mingling along the U.S.-Mexico border. Conjunto music has served as the soundtrack of the Tex-Mex working-class since the 19th century. Equally shaped by indigenous, Spanish and Mexican cultures along […]
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