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    Guest DJ Los Texmaniacs: Conjunto Specialists With A Knack For 'Cruzando Borders'

    The San Antonio-based band can trace its musical roots back to conjunto's beginnings in the early 1930s. The group plays guest DJ with tracks from its Spanglish-titled new album.
    by Felix Contreras May 10, 2018 1 minute
    The members of Los Texmaniacs, keeping the conjunto tradition alive.

    The presence of accordion-powered European dance music along the Texas/Mexico border is a phenomenon only about a hundred years old, forged as twists of historical fate made Tejanos and Polish farmers neighbors of polkas and Bavarian waltzes. But despite its short history, Tex-Mex conjunto has made a profound cultural impact and become an identifying characteristic of an entire subculture of the Latino community here in the U.S.

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