Corrido

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

experiences, and history through the means of corridos. Corridos (ballads) are a form of artwork, song, a means of expression, and most importantly an outlet. The corrido is an epic-lyric-narrative song that changes as society’s issues evolve. Corridos provide a point of view that is rarely communicated since they are created and listened to by the urban and rural working classes instigating that they are unworthy of serious study. Moreover, the corrido articulates life stories that include variations

Flor Reyes December 1, 2014 John Feodorov Fair 201A Popular Music and Society The Musical 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

I. Background Chalino Sanchez was born and raised in la Chilla known as “el rancho” the ranch. Chalino had six brothers, and a sister, named Juana. Chalino lost his father at age six, and lived in poverty at a young age with his mother Sannorina Felix. and siblings. It was always a struggle they either had to pick tomatoes or become a drug trafficker in Sinaloa. Chalino would tell his mother “don’t worry, with my body and voice in California you will not be without” page 23 in the book “A Chronicle

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

Introduction Coqui frogs are some of the most common frogs found in Puerto Rico. They are frogs that live in rainforests and they don't go through the tadpole stage and their name comes from the unique night time calling sound (ko-kee) made by the male species. Description, Diet, Ect. The Coqui Frog is a small frog who has dorsal colors from brown, gray and green with highly variable color patterns. These frogs have large toe pads and they don't have a tadpole stage. Like most frogs who have webbed

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

Kimberly Huynh Morrison/Lopez CALS165A 19 November 2014 Assignment #4: Los Cenzontles Concert Review Los Cenzontles is a band, a nonprofit organization, a music academy, a community space for youth and families as well as a hub for Latino artists. The group works together to amplify Mexican roots in the Bay Area and beyond. Los Cenzontles produces original music, videos, and educational tools. They also teach classes in traditional Mexican music, dance, and arts and crafts. The group operates Los

When using the song “Cortez the Killer” as a source on the European Conquistadors, a historian should consider what type of source it is, its creation date, the author’s origins, and how the Conquistadors are portrayed. A historian should consider these things because they might have an effect on the credibility of the source and the type of information they can give, which refers to things such as perspective. Firstly, the song “Cortez the Killer” is a secondary source written by Neil Young in 1975