UTSA professors’ project to preserve San Antonio’s West Side Sound

Two professors at the University of Texas San Antonio are harmonizing on a project designed to preserve a genre of music born in Alamo City. Sylvia Mendoza and Gloria Vasquez Gonzales, both from UTSA’s Department of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, have received $5,000 from the school’s Westside Community Partnerships Initiative to document what’s known as the West Side Sound. UTSA describes the West Side Sound, which is said to have originated here in…