norteñon.adj.

1953 H. F. Cline U.S. & Mexico i. vi. 111 He set forth ideals to which most norteños would still subscribe when he claimed that these Northerners are ‘..naturally the most inclined toward all the moral and political virtues’.

1972 E. H. Spicer & R. H. Thompson Plural Society in Southwest 111 The ethos of the Norteño has been shaped, thus, in his isolation from the Indian world and in his attitude of confronting danger.

1989 Third Text Summer 70 Walking down the streets of Tijuana you find a Lacandon Indian next to a norteño, next to a Mexico City punk.

1992 Tucson (Arizona) Weekly 27 May 17/2 Bayou Seco, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, plays a mix of cajun two-steps and waltzes, cumbias, Norteño and old-time fiddle tunes.

1992 City Limits 2 July 47/2 Known as the ‘Texas squeezebox master’ Ponty Bone actually combines the influences [of] dance music found in Texas like Mexican Norteno with a passion for the Cajun and Zydeco music of Louisiana, and 50s R & B.

1970 Amer. Folk Music Occas. No. 2. 73/1 Texas not only has Czech and German polka music but it is also the center of Mexican ‘Norteno’ music which, although imported from northern Mexico, as its name implies, has developed a very definite Texas sound and style.

1979 J. S. Roberts Lat. Tinge vii. 179 Far more radical changes got underway as younger musicians began reworking the norteño style under the influence of country music and rhythm-and-blues, in a development reminiscent of the New York bugalú.

1988 P. Manuel Pop. Musics Non-Western World ii. 56 While central Mexicans tended to regard norteño culture as provincial, northerners themselves gradually came to develop a sense of regional identity.