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

Los Tigres del Norte, one of the most influential corridistas, illustrate a corrido in ‘El Corrido,’ it states “Like the current/Of a grown river/That lowers in an instant/Impetuous and brave/Voice of our people/A repressed scream/A valiant song /That is the corrido/Voice of the oppressed/A spoken portrait.” (translated from Spanish) Corridos are a song style found throughout Latin America. Various types of music groups perform them across Latin America including: bandas, mariachis, and nortenos

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,

The corrido and subsequent narcocorrido play an intracule role in Mexican culture. The identity the corrido supplies to the Mexican heritage stems from the common social themes entangled in the unique arrangements of the melodies. Moreover, a customary form of attire, mimicking the American cowboy, provides a collective form of characteristics connected to the music. Furthermore, the exclusive Mexican ballads have transcended international borders, providing a means for Mexican-Americans who may

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