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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Speech - Chris Strachwitz Keynote - Part 02
Chris Strachwitz and Cathy Ragland
Chris Strachwitz delivers a keynote speech at the Accordion Kings conference.
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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.