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Praise the Drug Lord: Narcocorridos in Mexico

2020
This 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 and Moral Panics; the Case of Cartel TikTok and #Chapiza

2022
TikTok 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, 2013
A 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, 2013
A 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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