Cathy Ragland recently published her Spanish language article, "Hacer sonar la tradición a través de las fronteras: la popularidad transnacional de Ramón Ayala, ícono de la autenticidad fronteriza en la música norteña" (Sounding tradition across borders: the transnational popularity of Ramón Ayala, icon of bordered authenticity in música norteña), in the latest edition of the journal Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, Vol. 35 No. 1, Winter 2019, University of California Press. Ayala has been an accordionist and band leader for 50 years. Click here for more information.