Narcocorrido

Power of Narcocorridos The musical genre "Corridos" has been popular in Mexico for more than a hundred years. Certain musical groups like "Los Tigeres Del Norte" have helped construct a connection between Narcos (drug dealers) and Corridos which give life to a new branch in this musical category. This new branch, "Narcocorridos" has become one of the most dangerous musical influences in Mexico, and parts of the United States within the past 30 years. Throughout its existence Narcocorridos has affected

Mexico’s drugs wars as well as bloody drug cartels are echoed in a controversial folk music genre commonly known as narco corridos or simply as drug ballads. They tell the stories allied to shootouts, drug lords, betrayals including daring criminal operations. Narco corridos are not a new style in Mexican music, in fact, they have been around for years, and they are popular among the old and the young. This genre has evolved to be modern fugitive music that fuses the emotional responses of antique

training and embrace the use of the accordion and tuba in the melody (Madrid 2013, 92). The result of these factors is a musical genre considered unrefined and unsophisticated by most of Mexico until the music’s growth in popularity in the 1970s. Narcocorridos are a sub-genre of the Mexican corrido, use the ballads to tell harrowing tales of the criminal exploits of drug smugglers and cartel members. Found predominantly in northern,

I have chosen to conduct my research on Mexican narcocorridos, which are Mexican ballads that glorify the illegal narcotics industry. In my paper, I seek to define the history of this type of music, describe the negative implications the music may place on the culture, and attempt to identify any intelligence that can be gained. Interestingly, this sub-genre of music is hugely popular with Mexican-Americans who live along the west coast and have never visited Mexico. The first two assignments

Cherryco, a neologism, is the title of a tune by Don Cherry that first appeared to the world in 1966 when the iconic trumpeter released The Avant Garde, a revolutionary album that featured the one and only John Coltrane on tenor saxophone. This name, considered a joke on words with Cherokee, a well-known jazz standard, was also pertinent due to the fact that one could think about Cherry and Co(ltrane). Kirk Knuffke, a virtuosic NYC-based cornetist, used the same word to entitle his new album, which

Do narcocorridos glorify and incite the violent and gruesome behaviors they depict? Narcocorridos are a type of popular Mexican music that derives from traditional ballads called corridos. Corridos were popular in the first half of the 20th century because of their relation to the Mexican Revolution. They told stories about famous revolutionaries. Narcocorridos emerged later and became popular in the 1970s. The difference between these two music genres is that narcocorridos do not tell stories about

Mexican corridos and the subgenre, narcocorridos, are very popular in today’s Hispanic music culture. Like any other musical genre, there are people who are for corridos and people who are against them. The people against corridos frown upon this music, because they believe the lyrics and stories (in corridos) glorify and promote violence, drug trafficking, and criminals. In their eyes, corridos are so problematic, they believe the best thing to do is to erase and/or ban corridos from all music culture

Narcocorridos: Giving Mexican-American Youth a Sense of Cultural Identity in the US Victor Guzman Psych 141-1979 Con cuernos de chivo y basuca en la nuca/ Equipped with guns and bazookas Volando cabezas al que se atraviesa/ Heads fly of those who stand in the way Somos sanguinarios locos bien ondeados /we shed blood, crazy in the head Nos gusta matar / we like to kill Pa dar levantotes somos los mejores /we’re the

cultural philosophy and popular rhymes (Hamm 2008, 16-17). Similarly, narcocorridos paint lyrical images to entice the music’s listeners of the rewards that coincide with succeeding in the drug trafficking industry. For example, the imagery from narcocorridos and the music videos, showcasing enormous wealth, eye-catching vehicles, beautiful women, and exotic animals CITE. To an individual residing in low-income areas, narcocorridos may present an opportunity, to quickly capture the image of success

Secure places to visit. In 2006 Mexico was a safe place to visit, but everything changed after Felipe Calderon took over as new president. After few months of his new position, President Felipe Calderon decided to send 45,000 soldiers and 5,000 federal police to the state of Michoacán to eradicate the drug trafficking. He also fired hundreds of dishonest police officers. The drug trafficking movement is not a new movement. It has been existed for many decades, but now it is expanding further