Corrido

One a kid named tito torbellino grew up really poor he worked so he eat he loved to sing but people didn't think he was good. One day he was selling oranges will singing then a man ent up to him and your going to be someone when you grow up. Then the next day there were some men were tito would sell oranges and the main guy say this is an opportunity that will change you life. So tito accepted the offer. the next day tito called the man and the man told him to meet him in a nearby recording…

The Renovation of a Damaged People: Mexico’s Post-Revolution Cultural Recovery Throughout history, music, art, and literature have held key roles in dealing with and responding to current political events. This type of culture has been used for good and evil - spreading truth that inspires the masses to make a change, or propaganda in order for a government to cultivate certain ideas within its citizens. By looking at the content of artistic expression during any given time and in any given…

In the book “The Legacy of Americo Paredes” the author Jose Lopez Morin described the experiences of Americo Paredes a Mexican American whom was a great asset to the Chicano Folklore and the Mexican American history. The book focused on Americo Paredes work which eventually led to the challenge of Mexican American stereotypes since the U.S literature had annotated for many years otherwise. The book is organized in five different chapters, which emphasize The Lower Rio Grande, His Life and Work,…

Legends say he is a ghost roaming around the world and the seven seas. Selling his way to fortune he sold candy, oranges, soft drinks. Very close with his mother a very hard worker… she worked a lot. They grew corn and beans. From a poor humble family he became responsible to the age of 15 he grew up in a ranch called, La Tuna he turned the coin around and went to the drugs he grew poppy and marijuana he began to grow it, to harvest and to sell it. At the age of 18 to Culiacan, then after to…

Many say that he was the "Rey de los Corridos" (King of Corridos) and that he was one of the best singers ever to sing in Mexico. He made his breakthrough, in terms of publicity, on January 20, 1992. That evening, he was performing at a club in Coachella, California when a patron came up to the stage…

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…

Si eres pobre te humilla la gente/si eres rico te tratan muy bien/un amigo se metió a la mafia/porque pobre ya no quiso ser/ahora tiene dinero de sobra/por costales le pagan al mes (Los Tucanes de Tijuana, 2002). “El Centenario” performed by the famous Mexican regional band, Los Tucanes de Tijuana, narrates the story of a humble worker whose social position produced multiple encounters of humiliation (2002). Nevertheless, his faith changed when he joined the mafia, as he acquired fortune,…

In narcocorridos, justice is most of the times achieved and enforced by males through violent acts. 85.19% of the songs tend to talk about establishing justice. From these songs, women are shown in the narcocorridos as less involved in the cartels while males are the ones who are more mentioned by having 21 out of 23 songs about males and almost half of them sang from the first point of view of a male. It is more likely for the songs to be about the main character defending itself while it is…

there are certainly many different styles of samba. These types include samba caranavalesca, samba-enredo, samba baiana, samba-lenco, samba rural, samba de morro, samba da cidade, samba de terreiro, samba de breque, samba de partido-alto, samba corrido, samba-cancao, and samba-choro, to name a few. A distinction was made between hill and city samba somewhere in the 1930s. People that were considered middle class within urban areas began to like this new rhythm that they were hearing. Styles of…

dream suffering from domestic violence herself Dolores Janney Rivera Saavedra artistically known as “Jenni Rivera” or “La Diva De La Banda”. Though known for her extraordinary talent jenni changed the way the way society looks at the Banda/norteno/corrido genre by starting from the bottom and making her way to the top. Dominating her musical careers and in her music speaking for the women who do not have a voice, telling about her struggles to be able to get to the top and how anyone can…