Episode 260: The Border
The US-Mexico border is many things: a divisive political fact, a total fiction, home to many Latinx people and an arena of major cultural influence. For today’s episode, we take a look at some of the music that has arisen from this part of the country, and the social and political forces that influence life and art in this liminal space.
Featuring music by Gaytan y Cantu, Los Tigres del Norte, Freddy Fender, Selena, Chalino Sanchez, Ariel Camacho y Los Plebes del Rancho, Natanael Cano, Bad Bunny, Los Tremendos Gavilanes.
Things we mentioned on this episode:
La Frontera with Yvonne Marquez
A correction: we talked about the beginning of the war on drugs and the establishment of the DEA and we falsely attributed those to former President Ronald Reagon. It was President Richard Nixon who established both of those things, and whose legacy Reagan happily built off of.