Corrido

church on Sundays, we blasted music in our small 3 bedroom apartment and cleaned the house. When he could my father would play traditional Mexican ballads, know as corridos (ballads). Corridos talked about the Mexican Revolution and in essence where the songs that told stories of struggling times. What makes corridos so special is they talk about real events and real people. Several years ago when running a middle school aged after school program, corridos came back into my life. It was all the rage to listen to corrido artists and when the kids played them I was truly surprised by the…

Granted that the qualities of a corrido were introduced, the examination of popular corridos in Latin America is necessary to fully grasp how they informed the public. An example of a corrido that did just that is “La Cucaracha,” which is a popular song known by the vast majority of both children and adults not only in Latin America, but in the US as well. It became especially popular when it was altered to reflect events of the Mexican revolution. In the revision “the lyrics were changed to…

stories about people or a historical event. Even though this genre started as early as 1810 it is still very popular to this day. Today’s corridos have significantly changed since then. Today’s corridos have significantly changed from back then when they first started. Nowadays it is mostly “narcocorridos”. They started around the 1970s but, in the 1990s it is when they sparked and progressed really quickly. The “narcocorridos” talk about a variety of topics. These are about drug lords,…

Jose Luis Gomez Espinal Dr. B Salwen American Music 117-002 11/01/2017 Evolution of Corridos Corrido’s have been in Latinos culture for many generations and heard worldwide. Corrido’s can be heard at parties, clubs, cantinas, restaurants, concerts, and many more places. It’s a beautiful piece of music that could be funny, sad, romantic, about a person, or a place. Where do corrido’s originated from? What is a corrido’s and how did end up with American culture? Mi Carro Ford is a corrido that…

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…

like Miguel Hidalgo, the priest who declared war against the Spanish crown’s colonization of Mexican territory, was reworked and incorporated into a nationalist discourse that celebrated Mexican indigeneity and independence. Of course, Diaz’s promotion of a national identity with its attendant festivals, monuments, paintings, and avenues was also a way to consolidate the modern state as a “hegemonic form of political organization…and the predominant source of collective identity” with Diaz…

War on drugs has been a multinational dilemma that has been occurring over 50 years. The problem that has affected many families and communities yet remains without a solution. Tangled in a vicious network of drug trafficking countries such as the U.S., Cuba, Mexico and Columbia all have been under close regulation. During the 1960’s, usage of drugs than became a common outlet to ease the tension between social and political inequality. Thereupon, the U.S. declares war on Latin America in…

her music, sexy clothing, and provocative moves will corrupt their young people. This demonstrates how closed-minded people are making it hard and sometimes impossible for an artist to express themselves. Second, artists have become more open, and explicit in their song lyrics. They use their music platform to sing about real and made up issues, that illustrate crime, drugs, and violence. In fact, Mexico has a big problem of drugs and violence, and many States have censure Narco Corridos; songs…

For example, the classic play, “Los Vendidos” by Luis Valdez expresses the satire of the United States government and its policy of assimilation that offends racial identities during that era. “Los Vendidos” revealed problems from the Chicano community like “Zoot Suit” did as well. The play revealed the iconography of a popular culture, indigenous roots, working class ethos and popular art and traditions (Kinan Valdez 04/16). The play revealed this by creating Mexican American stereotypes that…

To discuss the abuse of Mexican-Americans, I found several New York Times articles from the late 19th century that cover various incidents of Mexican-American lynching. I also found a book from the late 19th century that demonstrates how Mexican-Americans had their land stolen by squatters. To analyze the development of mexicanidad, I found the corrido of Gregorio Cortez. The corrido as a style of folkloric-expression is important because of its theme—the Mexican-American hero from the…