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A Century on Shuffle: “Frontera” Spotify Playlist Features 100 Years of Music Along the US-Mexico Border
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Summary: A 470-song playlist from the book, Frontera: A Journey Across the US-Mexico Border, spans more than 100 years of music and tells a different story about the border—one of creativity, migration, innovation and cultural endless exchange. by Sergio Chapa At a superficial glance, those wide-ranging musical genres and artists don’t seem to belong in the…
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Border Angels and Magic Moments
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In our first days on the road in June 2013, we’d seen closed businesses and other bleak effects of cartel violence on Mexican border towns, before rolling into Big Bend National Park. We had heard about the park’s beauty but marveled over its mountains, colorful canyons, and unique micro-ecosystems.