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a long time, but how long? The length of time it has been around can say a lot about Tejano culture because music speaks so much for its people. Is it correct to assume that it was created here in Texas? What I really wanted to know was how it was created and how it has changed. What connection does Tejano music have to the community and how do we embrace it? Obviously the music has become very popular and I wanted to know how we came to love it and make it popular. I based my search on the Internet because I wanted to search a wide base. III.SearchingI spent most of my time searching the Internet for the history of Tejano music and the Tejano community. I searched the Rio Grande Valley Internet sites because after all it is a great Hispanic base and it is rich with Mexican-American culture. I was disappointed in the fact that there are so little RGV sites on the Internet about culture. It became quite obvious to me that my community is not living in the fast paced world of the Internet quite as lavishly as others American races. I did find some good information on a site called http://www.ondanet.com about the history of Tejano. There was a wide selection of information that was not useful to me; they were Tejano music stores! I struggled to find more information and then I faced the fact that searching the Internet for Tejano information was not the best way to go. IV.What I learnedUnfortunately I couldn’t answer all my questions in depth the way I had hoped but I did gain more knowledge on the Tejano subject. The subject on the history was limited on the Internet but there was some helpful information.“The music, like the people, has shaped by the unusual experience of existing between two cultures. The result is a synthesis, which is not entirely Mexican or entirely American. No other medium besides music so closely reflects the Mexican American spirit.” (1)I have learned that Tejano is unlike tha...

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