Corridos y narcocorridos, expresión musical y cultural de México, 1910—2010
Ballads and Drug Ballads, Mexican Musical and Cultural Expression, 1910—2010
Author(s): Maria Carmen Tatay Fernández
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Theoretical Linguistics, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Ballads; Drug Ballads; Mexican Revolution; History; Culture
Summary/Abstract: One of the most popular folk music in Mexico are the ballads or corridos. Two historical periods have been portrayed through this of musical expression: the Mexican Revolution of 1910 in the Revolutionary Ballads Corridos Revolucionarios and the Drug Ballads Narcocorridos in the present decades about current events. Both share to be a popularexpression, many times far away from the official interpretation of the events. They havea common language adapted to a similar musical rythm and have been widely adoptedby the Mexican people as their interpretation of historical events.Therefore, I propose to review two key periods in Mexican History, 1910 and 2010 from an academic perspective using these ballads as units of analysis, taking into account their contents (comparing and contrasting between both types of ballads) and their cultural expressions. Let the music to teach us about Mexico!
Book: Relecturas y nuevos horizontes en los estudios hispánicos. Vol. 3: Cultura y traducción
- Page Range: 59-72
- Page Count: 14
- Publication Year: 2016
- Language: Spanish
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