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Praise the Drug Lord: Narcocorridos in Mexico
2020This chapter describes the evolution of the popular Mexican narcocorridos genre, the drug ballads that, according to their critics and the authorities, glamorize crime and criminals. In the beginning, the songs told stories about the drug business with a certain objectivity but also with admiration for the drug lords.
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Narcocorridos: An Emerging Micromusic of Nuevo L. A.
Ethnomusicology, 2001Mettant en evidence la relation entre contexte social et musique populaire, entre reseaux musicaux translocaux et scenes musicales locales, l'A. examine les narcocorridos mexicaines dans les boites de nuit de Nuevo Los Angeles ou Nuevo L.A., un ensemble de compositions nouvelles, sur le modele des ballades populaires mexicaines (corridos), qui ...
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2009
The cultural landscapes that have emerged along with advanced globalization in the Western Hemisphere are nothing less than disconcerting. One of their most startling phenomena today is called the narcocorrido: an archaic and, one might think, even “primitive” form of balladry Its music intervenes into public consciousness, however, and serves as an ...
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The cultural landscapes that have emerged along with advanced globalization in the Western Hemisphere are nothing less than disconcerting. One of their most startling phenomena today is called the narcocorrido: an archaic and, one might think, even “primitive” form of balladry Its music intervenes into public consciousness, however, and serves as an ...
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Narcocorridos and Moral Panics; the Case of Cartel TikTok and #Chapiza
2022TikTok has become a popular platform among a group of people known in popular culture as “Chiquinarcos”: a subculture that emerged particularly in North and Northwest Mexico, whose fundamental characteristic is the expression of admiration and emulation towards certain figures and practices within the world of drug trafficking.
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Smuggling, Betrayal, and the Handle of a Gun: Death, Laughter, and theNarcocorrido
Popular Music and Society, 2013A comparison of two narcocorridos, Los Tigres del Norte’s “Contrabando y traición” (1974) and Alfredo Ríos’s “El Katch” (2009), highlights both continuity and change in core features of the genre. Whereas Los Tigres del Norte demonstrate a greater degree of restraint, a change of perspective enables Ríos to enthusiastically celebrate the illicit ...
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Narcocorridos and the Nostalgia of Violence: Postmodern Resistance en la Frontera
Western American Literature, 2013A musical derivation of the traditional polka-and waltz-like corrido , the narcocorrido is often dismissed and simplistically read as an archaic and ultraviolent form of the “classic” Mexican ballad, updated only in its replacement of revolutionary heroes with the glorified exploits of contemporary cross-border drug traffickers.
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Staging Narcocorridos : Las Reinas Chulas’ Dissident Audio-Visual Performance
Latin American Theatre Review, 2014The four female performers of Banda de Las Recodas (a.ka., Las Reinas Chulas) are a teatro-cabaret group based in Mexico City. Originally conceived as a theatre piece, the musical group has taken on a life of its own, becoming known for its socio-politically engagement.
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The consequences of censorship of Narcocorridos in Mexico
Academia Letters, 2022openaire +1 more source
El narcocorrido mexicano: ¿la violencia como discurso identitario?
2015Sociedad y Discurso, No 26 (2014)
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