Narcocorrido

Talia Godinez English 120 Professor Bewick December Who feels it knows it more: A Look Into Narcocorridos I grew up in a household where rather than attending 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…

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,…

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…

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…

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,…

To begin, Narco culture is a Mexican subculture that is built primarily of the drug cartels. There is almost a set code of conduct, or moral code that is associated with the lifestyle of Narcos. Some Mexican laws have forbidden the musical genre of Narcocorridos on the radio. Narcocorridos are songs that detail and glamorize the lifestyle of different Narcos. Furthermore, drug use (specifically marijuana and heroin) has increased. Ironically, the United States gets the majority of their drugs…

all the money and power their have. The narco-lifestyles as it is called, is glamorized through narcocorridos (The narcocorrido is a musical composition that is notorious for its violent protagonists and powerful storylines). The people that get involved in this crime is usually lower class communities that believes that the only way to achieve their goals is getting involved into drug trafficking. In this communities drug dealer are seen as “Robin hood” because their help the member of the…

Sometimes people see those people that commit deviant acts as their role models. Drug trafficking is not an issue that just start in the last decade. Latin American have years and years dealing with these issue. “Cocaine, methaqualone, heroin and marijuana are some of the drugs more illegal trafficking into the United States. Drug trafficking laws have created national and international conflicts between countries. Some of these countries argument that drug trafficking only leaves negative…

music is heard on both sides of the US–Mexican border. Besides being heard in Mexico, it is widely heard and produced throughout all Latin America. Early corridos (non-narco) go back as far to the Mexican Revolution of 1910, telling the stories of revolutionary fighters. Music critics have also compared narcocorrido lyrics and style to gangster rap and Mafioso rap. Involved from Mexican icons Pancho Villa, and Emiliano Zapata. Narcocorrido lyrics refer to particular events and include real dates…

In a business and culture dominated by males, the narcocorrido, “La Reina Del Sur” by Los Tigres Del Norte, is considered an anthem towards the empowerment of females among the narcoculture. A narcocorrido is a song-style under the regional Mexican music genre that narrates a story related to the drug business (Beezley 11). In a music industry that tends to narrate and honor men’s experiences, Los Tigres Del Norte sing a narcocorrido to celebrate a different character: Teresa Mendoza, a female…