Everyday Music: Exploring Sounds and Cultures

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Index Note: Page numbers in italics indicate photographs . a cappella spirituals, 34–37 accordions and conjunto music, 6–7 and Julius Vita, 10–11, 12–13, 16–17 varieties of, 6 and Zydeco, 111 “Acércane a Tu Vida,” 83 “Ach Ich Bin so Müde,” 104, 105 Adoration Dance, 117 African American musical influences, 6, 64, 111. See also specific music styles African influences, 64–65, 111 “A Ja Sam,” 13 Alazan-Apache Courts housing project, 85 Allen Thibodeaux and the French Ramblers, 6 Alliance for Multicultural Services, 118–20, 127 Allsup, Straley, 41, 50 La Alondra de la Frontera, 83, 94. See also Mendoza, Lydia Alpine Village Band, 15 Alvarado, Juan, 93 Alvarado, Lydia, 93 Alvarado, Maria Leonor, 93 Alvarado, Yolanda, 93 American Cancer Society, 16 American Folk Blues Festival, 67 Anglo/European immigrants, 6 Arhoolie Records, 84 Asian immigrants, 6 Athens, Texas, 2, 5, 45, 45 Aulabaugh, Mark, 17 Austin City Limits, 47 Bain, Gwen, 22–23 bajo sexto, 92 Balfora, Texas, 75 ballads, 64, 65 barn dances, 13 barrelhouse blues, 67–72 bass drums, 103 basses, 7, 124 Baylor County, 17 Beasley, Gloria, 111, 112, 116 Beaumont, Texas, 107, 107–9, 111–12, 115, 115 Benjamin, Texas, 17 Birkenfield, Margaret, 13 Bluebird Records, 93 “Blue Boomer Blues,” 67 bluegrass music, 82, 111 blues music barrelhouse blues, 67–72 online resources, 7 and race issues, 64 and rhythm bones, 111 boleros, 94–95 Bomarton, Texas, 12, 15 Bomarton Brass Band, 12 bones, 108–16, 110–12 Bones Fest, 116 boogie-woogie music, 65 Boxcar Willie, 47 Breckenridge, Texas, 23 “Bring Me Into Your Life,” 83 Buddhist temples, 121 Bunger, Texas, 29 Burrus, Brant, 29 Burrus, Gwen, 22, 22–23, 25 Burrus, Jamie, 25, 26, 29 Burrus, John, 18–21, 20–25, 22–29 Burrus, Thomas, 21 Burrus, William, 29 Bush, Johnny, 16 buskers, 16, 91–92 Cajun music and accordion music, 6 and online resources, 7 and rhythm bones, 111 call-and-response singing, 69 Cambodian Association of Houston, 124 Cambodian music and culture, 117, 118–28 Cambodian New Year, 117, 125, 126, 127 camp meetings, 27 “Cancion de Amor,” 92 La Cancionera de los Pobres, 94. See also Mendoza , Lydia Caribbean music, 111 Carruthers, Leland, 77 Carter family, 75 Cash, Johnny, 16 Catholic Charities, 120 Catholicism, 54 Centro Flog, 39 138 / Index ceremonial music, 54–58 Chancellor, Jim, 45, 49 chants and Mahanikay Buddhism, 127 and Tigua Indians, 54–57, 61 Chapei Veng (two-string guitar), 126 Chenier, Clifton, 115 Cherokee Indians, 109 Chicago Blues Festival, 70 Chihhing (cymbals), 126 Choctaw Indians, 109 choral music, 37, 102 Christian music, 26–29, 65 Cline, Patsy, 16 Coleman County Cowboys, 45 Columbia Records, 67 Comanche Indians, 9–10 conjunto music, 6–7, 84 Conjunto Music Hall of Fame, 95 Connally, John, 60 contest fiddling maintaining musical traditions, 7 National Junior Championship Fiddle Contest, 45, 48 Old Fiddlers Contest and Reunion, 2–4, 5, 45 Texas Fiddlers Contest and Reunion, 3–4 Texas Old Time Fiddlers Association, 40–41 and Trammell, 77 and the Westmoreland family, 6–7, 44, 45, 48–50 Continental Lounge, 115 cornet, 102–3 corridos, 94–95 Cortez, Manuel J., 92 cotton pickers, 32 country and western music. See also Western swing and “Bones” Nobles, 111 and evolution of music, 6 and German bands, 106 and Julius Vita, 16–17 and Skinny Trammell, 77 and Wes Westmoreland, 47 Country Balladeers, 76 country hymns, 29 Cowboy Reunion, 9 Cowboy Roundup, 76 cowboys, 9, 18–21, 22–29 cowboy songs, 19, 26–29 Creole music, 6, 111 Czech Harvesters, 15 Czech music, 10–11, 12–17 Dalby, Fred, 18–19 Dallas, Texas and Alexander Moore, 62, 63, 63–66, 64, 67, 68, 71, 72 and Cambodian community, 117 Dallas Folk Festival, 31, 39, 83–85 Freedmantown, 64, 72 and Lydia Mendoza, 83, 85 and Osceola Mays, 30, 30–31, 31, 32, 35, 36, 38, 39 Dallas County, 32 dance and accordion music, 13, 16 barn dances, 13 and boleros, 94 and changing musical styles, 6 and the Cowboy Reunion, 10 and fiddle styles, 41, 45, 49 and German music, 97, 98–100, 101, 104, 106 schottisches, 100, 104 and Tigua Indians, 54 traditional Cambodian dance, 117, 120, 127 waltzes, 10, 13, 104 Davis, R. A., 77 Detroit, Michigan, 92 Diamond, Tom, 60 “Die Melodie,” 104 Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Hall, 106 discrimination, 64 dobros, 79 Documentary Arts, 39 Donatto, L. C., 111 Douglass, Albert, 34 Douglass, Azalean, 36 drought, 12 drums and Cambodian...