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JOURNEY 1800 - 1930
Mexican-American Music – Spotlight Austin
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TEXAS MUSIC HISTORICAL
JOURNEY 1800 - 1930
Visit Texas Music Museum
between February and
September 2013 to learn about
and enjoy the music of Texas
Native Americans such as Kiowa,
Wichita, Caddo and many more.
Spaniards brought the first cattle
and horses to Texas, spurring
cattle ranching in Texas. The
exhibit includes materials on
early cowboy songs. In the early
1800s immigrants from many
parts of Europe settled in Texas.
Many of these immigrants were
classical composures, musicians,
and music teachers that led to
the development of early
symphonies and publishing
companies, German singing
societies, community bands, and
dance halls. The early 1900s saw
the development of early
Mexican American bands,
orchestras, early gospel, blues,
jazz, popular music and country
with emerging talent such as
fathers of country music Vernon
Dalhart and Erick Robertson, and
King of Ragtime Scott Joplin.!
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VALMON RECORDS
At age 26 in 1950 Ben Moncivais of
East Austin, was a reputable
watchmaker and leased space inside
the Martin Valdez furniture store at
413 East 6th street. By the
early 1960's Mr.and
Mrs.Moncivais operated
their own Jewelry and
Record shop at 313 East
6th street, across from the
historic Ritz Theater
downtown Austin.
Combining the first three
letters of 'VALdez" in
honor of Martin Valdez
and the first three letters of
"MONcivais" he formed
VALMON Records.
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VALMON Records became
the first independent
Mexican-American record
label from Austin,Texas.
where early recording
sessions took place in East
Austin on East 3rd street at
the Pan American
Recreation Center. Mr.
Moncivais help foster the
development of MexicanAmerican music in the
Austin community.
VALMON Records helped
launch the music careers of many MexicanAmerican music legends from Austin and around
Texas. Mr. Moncivais crossed paths and
developed friendships with music composers,
club promoters and radio hosts like Lalo
Campos, Jose Jaime Garcia, Victor Polanco, Del
Martinez, Marcelo Taffoya, Vidal Limon,
Lonnie Guerrero and Rosita Ornelas.
Mr. and Mrs. Moncivais expanded VALMON
Jewelry & Records and earned generations of
loyal customers for over forty years until closing
Valmon Records in 1994. Sadly, Ben Moncivais
passed on this summer, but his legacy remains.
Clockwise from left: Guadalupe “Shorty” Ortiz
(from Shorty and the Corvettes), Johnny
DeGollado (Austin Conjunto Legend), and
Isidoro “EZ” Lopez (local Radio and Television
Personality for many decades, now host of Fiesta
Musical). Center: Shorty’s son Anthony
strumming along with Dad and the accordion of
Shorty’s Grandson Anthony Jr.
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'Roses and Accolades'
for Kenny Dorham
Dave Oliphant is a native Texan
poet, a recently retired (2006)
senior lecturer at the University
of Texas in Austin, the editor of
The Library Chronicle, a noted
writer on the history of Jazz in
Texas, and editor/publisher of
Prickly Pear Press. His recent
books include a volume of
poems, Backtracking (2004), a
collection of essays, Jazz
Mavericks of the Lone Star State
(2007), and two translations of
collections of Chilean poetry:
Love Hound by Oliver Welden
(winner of the poetry prize at the
2007 New York Book Festival)
and After Dinner Declarations by
Nicanor Parra (2009). Oliphant’s
548-page memoir, Harbingers of
Books to Come: A Texan’s
Literary Life, was published by
Wings Press in 2009.
Oliphant was born in Fort Worth
in 1939. He graduated from the
University of Texas with an
M.A. and took his Ph.D. at
Northern Illinois University.
Dave Oliphant's 'KD' is a
discographical epic poem
referencing internationally
acclaimed Texas Jazz
trumpeter Kenny Dorham
(1924-1972) and his
career of performing and
recording with the greatest
musicians of the bop and
hard bop eras in jazz
history from Charlie
Parker, Dizzy Gillespie,
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Jason Mellard is a cultural historian of
the modern South and Southwest. He
received his Ph. D. in American Studies
at the University of Texas at Austin in
2009. His first book, Progressive
Country: How the 1970s Transformed
the Texan in Popular Culture, explores
the intersections of political change and
popular culture in the Sunbelt South’s
largest state. At Texas State, he works
with the Center for Texas Music History
on the publication of The Journal of
Texas Music History, the weekly radio
program This Week in Texas Music
History, coursework, and other projects.
Research on Progressive Country has
also developed into a range of
collaborations in public history and the
arts with such institutions as Foodways
Texas, Humanities Texas, the South
Austin Popular Culture Center, and the
visual artist Bob Wade. Mellard’s
current research interests include the
racial politics of musical performance
venues in the mid-twentieth century
Texas-Mexico borderlands. Research
Interests Post-1945 U.S., Popular
Music History, Texas History Select
Publications Progressive Country:
How the 1970s Transformed the Texan
in Popular Culture. Austin: University of
Texas Press, forthcoming fall 2013.
“Home with the Armadillo: Public
Memory and Performance in the 1970s
Austin Music Scene,” The Journal of
Texas Music History, November 2010.
“Regional Hybridity in Texas Music: The
Case of the Texas Tornados,” Text
Practice Performance 5, pp. 107-132.
November 5, 2003. Watch for Jason’s
new book out soon.
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