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Tejano

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(historical) A Spanish colonial settler of the region that later became Texas.

A Texan (especially male) of Mexican descent.
Synonyms: Texican, Tex-Mexican
Coordinate term: Tejana

(music, uncountable) Various forms of folk and popular music originating among the Mexican-American populations of Central and Southern Texas.
Synonyms: Tex-Mex music, Tejano music
Coordinate term: norteño

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It's what I know best. It's roots. It's Dazed And Confused and Friday Night Lights. It's border life and El Pato and Whataburger and getting drunk in a back of a pickup. It's dancing every weekend to country music, or Tejano music, or club music. It's the beach. It's, for better or worse, home. Mando Alvarado

He was forced out of that office, due to threats on his life, by sectarian newcomers and political opponents in 1842, becoming the last Tejano mayor for nearly 150 years. Source: Internet

Davis (2006), p. 122. Although prominent Tejano Juan Seguín raised a militia company to assist the governor, the Béxar ayuntamiento (city council) ordered him not to interfere, Lack (1992), pp. 21–2. Source: Internet

Davis (2006), p. 288. Lack (1992), p. 206. Over the next several years, hundreds of Tejano families resettled in Mexico. Source: Internet

If it had been a Monday night — which at El Tejano is “Marg Monday” — I figure the howling would have been even louder, for margaritas are $3 all day long. Source: Internet

González earned three GRAMMY® nominations between 1990-2003 and was awarded the Best Tejano Album GRAMMY with his band, Jimmy González y El Grupo Mazz, for at the 46th GRAMMY Awards®. Source: Internet

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