Latin Music USA is a story about American music. Fusions of Latin sounds with jazz, rock, country, rhythm and blues - music with deeper roots and broader reach than most people realize. It’s a fresh take on our musical history, reaching across time and across musical genres to embrace the exciting hybrid sounds created by Latinos; musical fusions that have deeply enriched popular music in the US for over more than five decades.
The show traced the history of Latin music in the US from its days of anti-Mexican racism in the '50s, from groups like Little Joe and the Latinaires, up through Freddy Fender, Selena, Linda Ronstadt, and finally to the most popular group in the US that you've never heard of (10,700 YouTube vids!), el grupo Norteño Los Tigres Del Norte.
A good show and I learned some new things, like about Los Tigres. Some things I already knew were reinforced:
1. Country music is country music, don't matter what country or what they call it.
2. Any Mexican music with even a trace of 'oom-pah-pah' in it was influenced by German settlers along the border.
3. It's illegal for a Mexican song to not contain the word 'corazon'.
4. Some things are just fuckin' universal.
5. If ya work on the engine, work on the brakes too...
Los Tigres Del Norte ~ La Camioneta Gris (The Gray Pickup)
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