INTRODUCTION: The Formation of the Narcocorrido
Mexico is living in a constant crisis where half of its population lives under poverty (Population Below Poverty Line 1) and women experience great gaps of inequality and fear of femicides (Global Gender Gap Index 2014). The War on Drugs has contributed to these statistics and transformed Mexican culture (Palaversich 86) including the most traditional music: the corrido, a genre of Mexican folk music that narrates a story. Currently, corridos are usually related to narcocorrido because it has changed the anecdotes about the Mexican Revolution (Beezley 11) to the stories about drug trafficking.
The economic desperation, government corruption, and the huge economic gap has promoted the rise in popularity …show more content…
PURPOSE OF RESEARCH: Justice in a Clandestine Environment
In this research, I will explore what are the circumstances that lead people to be fans of narcocorridos and whether they internalize some of the sexist and violent messages that it promotes. This is important because, this is an industry of political music that has been growing in United States (Denselow 1) and in Mexico, principally Sinaloa, becoming a hybrid of both cultures. Moreover, the violence and amazing transitions from poverty to exaggerated wealth (Ugalde 109), seems to attract rural, low-income, low-educated communities, that live in desperation, thus falling in a circle of criminalization of poverty.
RESEARCH METHOD OF DATA GATHERING: Content analysis
The participants were randomly selected. The survey was created through Qualtrics and distributed through social networks. In order to continue the questionnaire, it was required for the participants to know what narcocorridos are otherwise, the platform would automatically exit them from the survey and not allow them to continue. The internalized characteristics (sexism and violence) that were examined, were narcocorridos’ problematic factors noticed and discussed by other academics (Corina 3 - 5). Groups were made depending on how frequently participants listened to …show more content…
Cross tabulations and percentages were also utilized. Some key questions were “How often do you listen to narcocorridos” and “What is your gender?” These questions were bases for cross tabulation analysis and to determined,
What are the most popular opinions on narcocorridos from the people who least prefer this music?
What is the usual environment and circumstances of people who listen frequently to narcocorridos?
From the people who listen the most to narcocorridos, how is their thinking affected? Are they aware about what they are listening and the messages?
These helped to understand how the person’s circumstances might make them see the drug business as a fast way to achieve social mobility or a threat to society.
Two of the strengths of my research are the categories’ breakdown and the calculation I utilized to arrive to my conclusion. Economic instability, violence, and female objectification are usual topics in narcocorridos. Thus, the categorize utilized in order to explore people’s interactions with these topics, especially among those who were the most exposed to narcocorridos, produced data that answered my questions and proved or challenged my
Mexico is living in a constant crisis where half of its population lives under poverty (Population Below Poverty Line 1) and women experience great gaps of inequality and fear of femicides (Global Gender Gap Index 2014). The War on Drugs has contributed to these statistics and transformed Mexican culture (Palaversich 86) including the most traditional music: the corrido, a genre of Mexican folk music that narrates a story. Currently, corridos are usually related to narcocorrido because it has changed the anecdotes about the Mexican Revolution (Beezley 11) to the stories about drug trafficking.
The economic desperation, government corruption, and the huge economic gap has promoted the rise in popularity …show more content…
PURPOSE OF RESEARCH: Justice in a Clandestine Environment
In this research, I will explore what are the circumstances that lead people to be fans of narcocorridos and whether they internalize some of the sexist and violent messages that it promotes. This is important because, this is an industry of political music that has been growing in United States (Denselow 1) and in Mexico, principally Sinaloa, becoming a hybrid of both cultures. Moreover, the violence and amazing transitions from poverty to exaggerated wealth (Ugalde 109), seems to attract rural, low-income, low-educated communities, that live in desperation, thus falling in a circle of criminalization of poverty.
RESEARCH METHOD OF DATA GATHERING: Content analysis
The participants were randomly selected. The survey was created through Qualtrics and distributed through social networks. In order to continue the questionnaire, it was required for the participants to know what narcocorridos are otherwise, the platform would automatically exit them from the survey and not allow them to continue. The internalized characteristics (sexism and violence) that were examined, were narcocorridos’ problematic factors noticed and discussed by other academics (Corina 3 - 5). Groups were made depending on how frequently participants listened to …show more content…
Cross tabulations and percentages were also utilized. Some key questions were “How often do you listen to narcocorridos” and “What is your gender?” These questions were bases for cross tabulation analysis and to determined,
What are the most popular opinions on narcocorridos from the people who least prefer this music?
What is the usual environment and circumstances of people who listen frequently to narcocorridos?
From the people who listen the most to narcocorridos, how is their thinking affected? Are they aware about what they are listening and the messages?
These helped to understand how the person’s circumstances might make them see the drug business as a fast way to achieve social mobility or a threat to society.
Two of the strengths of my research are the categories’ breakdown and the calculation I utilized to arrive to my conclusion. Economic instability, violence, and female objectification are usual topics in narcocorridos. Thus, the categorize utilized in order to explore people’s interactions with these topics, especially among those who were the most exposed to narcocorridos, produced data that answered my questions and proved or challenged my