Narcco Corridos Research Paper

Music is part of our lives, we listen to music all the time one way or another. Music can bring many kind of emotions and at times it reflects our feelings. But not only that, music is also really influential in many positive and negative ways. The kind of influence that I will be referring throughout this essay is the powerful influence music can bring to us in our understanding of race and ethnicity. This is call pop-culture “the entirety of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, images and other phenomena that are within the mainstream of a given culture”. Wiki. Narco corridos is a new type of music that has become so popular and part of the “style” from now days. Here in the U.S narco corridos are refer to as drug ballads or Mexican gangster music. Narco corridos originated from ballads called corridos that used to be part of the tradition in Mexico. Corridos were stories about the Mexican …show more content…
Killings! Through the way Quintero dresses and the way he portrays narcos he is defiantly representing the Mexican ethnicity in a negative way. Edgar as a Mexican American singing narco corridos shows that that’s what Mexicans do or that’s what Mexican people would like to be, narcs. Quintero once said in the film Narco Cultura that “regular people go to the club and they feel narco for that night”, demonstrates that Hispanic’s desire is to become narcs/drug dealers in order to get respect and fast money; which is certainly not true and disrespectful because I am a Mexican American and I should not be included in that. I along with many other Mexican, Hispanic, or latinos are not killers or would ever like to become drug dealers in order to succeed in life and become rich. Through Quintero’s music it makes all Mexican people look as if we are all killers and our solution is taking the easy way to succeed in