Cathy Ragland is a Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of North Texas. Before UNT, Dr. Ragland was Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Texas Pan American (2009-2012). Her research and scholarship focus on US-Mexico border music, rurality, and the politics of identity, memory and place, music and immigration/migration and gender.
She is author of the book Música Norteña, Mexican Migrants Creating a Nation between Nations (Temple Univ. Press, 2009) and has published chapters in Decentering the Nation: Music, Mexicanidad, and Globalization (Lexington Books, 2019); Cumbia!: Scenes of a Migrant Latin American Music Genre (Duke Univ. Press, 2013); The Accordion in the Americas: Klezmer, Polka, Tango, Zydeco, and More! (Univ. of Illinois Press, 2012); Transnational Encounters: Music and Performance at the U.S.-Mexico Border (Oxford Univ. Press, 2011), Gateways: Northeastern Mexico and South Tejas, One Region, One Culture: An Anthology of Essays (Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, 2011); and Puro Conjunto, An Album in Words, Pictures, Writings, Posters and Photos from the Tejano Conjunto Festival en San Antonio, 1982-1998 (Univ. of Texas Press, 2001).
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Interview with Juan Alanis Tamez - Part 02
Juan Alanis Tamez and Cathy Ragland
Juan Alanis Tamez discusses the influence of the indigenous people of Northern Mexico on Norteño music.
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Interview with Juan Manuel Barco
Juan Manuel Barco and Cathy Ragland
Juan Manuel Barco discusses songs he wrote.
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Interview with Juan Silva - Part 01
Juan Silva and Cathy Ragland
Cathy Ragland interviews accordion player and songwriter, Juan Silva from Los Rancheritos del Topo Chico and Piporro y Juan Silva.
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Interview with Juan Silva - Part 02
Juan Silva and Cathy Ragland
Cathy Ragland interviews accordion player and songwriter, Juan Silva from Los Rancheritos del Topo Chico and Piporro y Juan Silva.
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Interview with Julian Garza - Part 01
Julian Garza and Cathy Ragland
Cathy Ragland interviews singer and composer, Julian Garza.
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Interview with Julian Garza - Part 02
Julian Garza and Cathy Ragland
Cathy Ragland interviews singer and composer, Julian Garza.
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Interview with Los Dos Gilbertos - Part 01
Gilberto Garcia Sr., Bobby Salinas, Armando Mercado, and Cathy Ragland
Cathy Ragland interviews Gilberto Garcia Sr., Bobby Salinas and Armando Mercado on the history of Los Dos Gilbertos.
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Interview with Los Dos Gilbertos - Part 02
Gilberto Garcia Sr., Bobby Salinas, Armando Mercado, and Cathy Ragland
Cathy Ragland interviews Gilberto Garcia Sr., Bobby Salinas and Armando Mercado on the history of Los Dos Gilbertos.
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Interview with Luis Antonio Garza Flores and Valerio Marroquin - Part 01
Luis Antonio Garza Flores, Valerio Marroquin, and Cathy Ragland
Cathy Ragland interviews managers of Los Montañeses del Álamo, Luis Antonio Garza Flores and Valerio Marroquin.
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Interview with Luis Antonio Garza Flores and Valerio Marroquin - Part 01
Valerio Marroquin, Luis Antonio Garza Flores, and Cathy Ragland
Cathy Ragland interviews Luis Antonio Garza Flores and Valerio Marroquin of Los Montañeses del Alamo.
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Interview with Luis Antonio Garza Flores and Valerio Marroquin - Part 02
Luis Antonio Garza Flores, Valerio Marroquin, and Cathy Ragland
Cathy Ragland interviews Luis Antonio Garza Flores and Valerio Marroquin of Los Montañeses del Alamo.
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Interview with Luis Antonio Garza Flores and Valerio Marroquin - Part 02
Valerio Marroquin and Cathy Ragland
Cathy Ragland interviews managers of Los Montañeses del Álamo, Luis Antonio Garza Flores and Valerio Marroquin.
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Interview with Luis y Julian
Luis Garza, Julian Garza, and Cathy Ragland
Cathy Ragland interviews Luis y Julian about the history of the group.
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Interview with Miguel Luna - Part 01
Miguel Luna and Cathy Ragland
Cathy Ragland interviews accordion player and songwriter, Miguel Luna from El Palomo y El Gorrion.
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Interview with Miguel Luna - Part 02
Miguel Luna and Cathy Ragland
Cathy Ragland interviews accordion player and songwriter, Miguel Luna from El Palomo y El Gorrion.
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Interview with Mingo Saldivar - Part 01
Mingo Saldivar and Cathy Ragland
Cathy Ragland interviews Mingo Saldivar of Mingo Saldívar y Sus Tremendos Cuatro Espadas, Los Guadalupanos
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Interview with Mingo Saldivar - Part 02
Mingo Saldivar and Cathy Ragland
Cathy Ragland interviews Mingo Saldivar of Mingo Saldívar y Sus Tremendos Cuatro Espadas, Los Guadalupanos.
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Interview with Nacho Tijerina and Armando Ortiz - Part 01
Nacho Tijerina, Armando Ortiz, and Cathy Ragland
Cathy Ragland interviews Nacho Tijerina and Armando Ortiz.
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Interview with Nacho Tijerina and Armando Ortiz - Part 02
Nacho Tijerina, Armando Ortiz, and Cathy Ragland
Cathy Ragland interviews Nacho Tijerina and Armando Ortiz.
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Interview with Nacho Tijerina and Armando Ortiz - Part 03
Nacho Tijerina, Armando Ortiz, and Cathy Ragland
Cathy Ragland interviews Nacho Tijerina and Armando Ortiz.
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Interview with Nacho Tijerina and Armando Ortiz - Part 04
Nacho Tijerina, Armando Ortiz, and Cathy Ragland
Cathy Ragland interviews Nacho Tijerina and Armando Ortiz.
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Interview with Oscar Flores - Part 01
Oscar Flores and Cathy Ragland
Cathy Ragland interviews music promoter, Oscar Flores.
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Interview with Oscar Flores - Part 02
Oscar Flores and Cathy Ragland
Cathy Ragland interviews music promoter, Oscar Flores.
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Interview with Oscar Hernandez - Part 01
Oscar Hernandez and Cathy Ragland
Cathy Ragland interviews Oscar Hernandez from the Tuff Band.
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Interview with Oscar Hernandez - Part 02
Oscar Hernandez and Cathy Ragland
Cathy Ragland interviews Oscar Hernandez from the Tuff Band.
