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 Poncho Villagomez - Part 01
Poncho Villagomez and Cathy Ragland
Cathy Ragland interviews Poncho Villagomez from Poncho Villagomez y Sus Coyotes del Rio Bravo and from Del Bravo Records.
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Interview with Poncho Villagomez - Part 02
Poncho Villagomez and Cathy Ragland
Cathy Ragland interviews Poncho Villagomez from Poncho Villagomez y Sus Coyotes del Rio Bravo and from Del Bravo Records.
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Interview with Ramiro Cavazos - Part 01
Ramiro Cavazos Gutiérrez and Cathy Ragland
Cathy Ragland interviews Ramiro Cavazos from Los Donneños.
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Interview with Ramiro Cavazos - Part 02
Ramiro Cavazos Gutiérrez and Cathy Ragland
Cathy Ragland interviews Ramiro Cavazos from Los Donneños.
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Interview with Ramón Ayala
Ramon Ayala and Cathy Ragland
Cathy Ragland interviews Ramon Ayala of Ramón Ayala y Los Bravos del Norte.
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Interview with Rogelio Garcia - Part 01
Rogelio Garcia and Cathy Ragland
Cathy Ragland interviews DJ for Canal Doce, Rogelio Garcia.
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Interview with Rogelio Garcia - Part 02
Rogelio Garcia and Cathy Ragland
Cathy Ragland interviews DJ for Canal Doce, Rogelio Garcia.
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Interview with Rudy Rocha
Rudy Rocha and Cathy Ragland
Cathy Ragland interviews Rudy Rocha, disk jockey at KXTN Radio Station. Rudy Rocha explains Tejano music.
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Interview with Tony de la Rosa - Part 01
Tony De La Rosa and Cathy Ragland
Cathy Ragland interviews Tony de la Rosa from Tony De La Rosa Y Su Conjunto.
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Interview with Tony de la Rosa - Part 02
Tony De La Rosa and Cathy Ragland
Cathy Ragland interviews Tony de la Rosa from Tony De La Rosa Y Su Conjunto.
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Interview with Tony de la Rosa - Part 03
Tony De La Rosa and Cathy Ragland
Cathy Ragland interviews Tony de la Rosa from Tony De La Rosa Y Su Conjunto.
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Live Performance - Fiesta del Rancho El Chubasco de Carlos Salazar - Part 01
Cardenales de Nuevo León, Carlos Tierranegra Salazar, and Cathy Ragland
Live performance recording of a fiesta in Carlos y Jose's ranch called "El Chubasco" near General Teran, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Lineup: Cardenales de Nuevo León.
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Live Performance - Fiesta del Rancho El Chubasco de Carlos Salazar - Part 02
Los Hermanos Banda De Salamanca and El Palomo y El Gorrion
Live performance recording of a fiesta in Carlos y Jose's ranch called "El Chubasco" near General Teran, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Lineup: Los Hermanos Banda De Salamanca and El Palomo y El Gorrion.
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Live Performance - Fiesta del Rancho El Chubasco de Carlos Salazar - Part 03
Live performance recording of a fiesta in Carlos y Jose's ranch called "El Chubasco" near General Teran, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.
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Live Performance - Northwest Folklife Festival 1998 - Banda Vagos
Banda Vagos
Live performance of Banda Vagos at the 1998 Northwest Folklife Festival in Mercer Arena, Seattle, Washington.
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Live Performance - Northwest Folklife Festival 1998 - Mariachi Huenachi
Mariachi Huenachi
Live performance of Mariachi Huenachi at the 1998 Northwest Folklife Festival in Mercer Arena, Seattle, Washington.
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Live Performance - Songs on Labor and Migration - Lalo Guerra, Gloria Garcia, and Juan Barco
Eduardo "Lalo" Guerra, Gloria Garcia, and Juan Barco
Live performances of Lalo Guerra, Gloria Garcia, unknown performer, and Juan Barco singing about migration and labor.
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Tejano Conjunto Festival 1990 - Accordion Workshop with Flaco Jimenez
Leonardo "Flaco" Jimenez and Cathy Ragland
Accordion workshop with Flaco Jimenez at the Tejano Conjunto Festival 1990 in San Antonio, Texas.
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Tejano Conjunto Festival 1990 - Accordion Workshop with Valerio Longoria
Valerio Longoria and Cathy Ragland
Accordion workshop with Valerio Longoria at the Tejano Conjunto Festival 1990 in San Antonio, Texas.
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Texas Country Roots 1 Radio Program - Part 01
Texas Folklife Resources and Cathy Ragland
Texas Country Roots radio program.
