from Mexico, and their struggle with balancing a Mexican identity and an American one. This can be first seen through the styles of Tejano music, in dance forms—including polkas, waltzes, foxtrots, and pasodoble—and songs, focused on love, loss, or narrative poetry (corridos). In its dance forms, Tejano music utilizes European and American forms, largely focusing on the polka, a Czech form. These dances are perhaps a relic of colonization, or otherwise a symbol of attempted identity assimilation into…
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