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Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 12:21:27 -0500
From: "Tim Moyer - Working Man's Harps"
Subject: Re: prewar texas harp players

Glenn wrote:
>Maybe Texas didn't have many Germans at the time.

Central Texas actually still has a substantial German population in places
like Fredericksburg, Kerrville, Boerne, Schulenburg, etc. (ask my friends,
the Hierholtzers!) The blending of the German accordion influence with the
local Mexican music is what gave rise to Tejano, still popular. Texas
Mexicans carried the accordion back to northern Mexico and blended it with
the local conjunto style to produce Nortenjo music.

One possibility for the lack of blues harmonica is that central Texas, where
the Germans lived, didn't have a large black population to popularize blues
music. While Texas was a slave state before the Civil War, slavery was most
useful for large farming operations, which was primarily in east Texas.
Central Texas is ranch land, the farther west you go the more arid and
sparse it gets, the less effective farming and slavery were.

- -tim

Tim Moyer - Working Man's Harps
Customized Harmonicas for the Working Man
http://tymoyer.home.texas.net/WorkingMansHarps/
wmhar~exas.net

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