Word: nortena
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...slain entertainers all played related styles of music. Hailing from ranches and small towns in northern Mexico, the genre (which includes Banda, Nortena, Grupero and Durangense) combines Mexican folk melodies with the marching band ryhthms of German immigrants. The music has now evolved to include electric guitars and keyboards and is as popular in big Mexican and U.S. cities as it is in the countryside...
...ideas flow from as well as to the Mexican operation. That's how agujas de Nortena, an extremely thin cut of chuck steak popular in Mexico but rarely sold north of the border, found its way to H-E-B meat counters in the U.S. --By David Lincoln Ross
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