“Puro Conjunto: Border(less) Sound,” the latest exhibition at the UT-San Antonio Institute of Texan Cultures, celebrates a distinctly Texan genre born of global migration and creative co-mingling along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Conjunto music has served as the soundtrack of the Tex-Mex working-class since the 19th century. Equally shaped by indigenous, Spanish and Mexican cultures along with those of German and Czech immigrants — who brought the polka, the waltz and the accordion — this cultural confluence gave form to a hybrid sound that exists nowhere else in the world.
Visitors to the museum’s temporary digs inside downtown’s Frost Tower will experience historical retellings that highlight the genre’s progenitors as well as an exhibition of photographs and artifacts, some of which are on public display for the first time.
The exhibition will remain on display through Sunday, May 30 of next year.
Free-$10, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. daily through Sunday, May 30, 2027, UT-San Antonio Institute of Texan Cultures, 111 W. Houston St., (210) 458-2300, texancultures.utsa.edu.
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