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  Corrido - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The corrido is a popular narrative song and poetry form of the mestizo Mexican cultural area (which includes the Southern states of USA, taken from Mexican sovereignship in the midst and late 19th.
Until the arrival and success of electronic mass-media (mid-20th century), the corrido served in Mexico as the main informational and educational mean, even with subversive purposes, due to its apparent linguistic and musical simplicity, proper for oral transmission.
In mestizo-Mexican cultural area those three variants of corrido (transcultured romances, "Revolution corrido" and the modern one) are samely alive and sung, along with brother narrative-popular genres, such as the "valona" of Michoacán state, the "son arribeño" of the Sierra Gorda (Guanajuato, Hidalgo and Querétaro states) and others.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Corrido   (573 words)

  
 Guadalajara Reporter's 6th annual mariachi and charro festival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
For the corrido ‹ a narriative, particularly Mexican, musical form born in the 17th century ‹ was a kind of oral news magazine of the 1910 Revolution.
Obviously there were corridos, well developed and popular, before then, since the songs were the newspapers of the illiterate and the poor (which were not always the same: while the poor were almost always illiterate, the illiterate were not always poor).
Corridos most certainly were beging sung in one form or another‹ possibly quite primitive‹ during the 1810 War of Indepencence led by Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla.
www.guadalajarareporter.com /mariachi/story.cfm?id=20   (1103 words)

  
 Corridos
Corridos are a folk art form situated somewhere between oral history and cultural myth.
Influenced by the native American epic traditions, the corrido emerged in the 19th century and is related to the Spanish romance (Spanish verb – to run).
These very things are what led to the evolution of the corrido north of the border from the story of the hero to the story of the victim in contemporary settings.
score.rims.k12.ca.us /score_lessons/corridos   (388 words)

  
 AAW_corrido
While folklorists argue the exact birthplace of the present day corrido, most indicate the Mexican-American War and the Texas-Mexico border as the timeframe and location where the largest body of these ballads were written.
Note that the corrido is a ballad form--the majority those listed as sources in this lesson plan follow a simple four-line stanza with eight syllables on each line where the last word of the second and forth line rhyme.
Depending on time constraints, allow students to share their corridos with the class, either by presenting them with music, developing them into a display with artwork, or using them in a poetry slam contest.
www.ncteamericancollection.org /aaw_corrido.htm   (1892 words)

  
 "El Corrido"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Corridos (border ballads) have functioned as a form of subalternity that creates an alternative discourse to the imaginary of the border region.
This study is an examination of the analysis and critique found in corridos that represent a critical communications of the violence at the nations’ shared edges–and its ensuing political implications.
It is from this description of the corrido that I wish to begin my discussion of corridos’ function as an alternative discourse; one that emerges over the riverbanks of legitimized information and status quo news reporting to change the course of the river into a dynamic multifaceted fountain of knowledge.
www-mcnair.berkeley.edu /2000journal/Hernandez/Hernandez.html   (3796 words)

  
 ARTSEDGE: Form and Theme in the Traditional Mexican Corrido
Although many traditional corridos were written about historical events (wars and revolutions) and heroes (John F. Kennedy and Fernando Valenzuela), and major catastrophes (earthquakes and train wrecks), many corridos were written about the common aspects of everyday life, and the ways that everyday life is disrupted.
Subjects of such corridos have included the struggles and joys in relationships and employment, the characteristics of a hometown or region, and stories of individuals who defend themselves from outside forces.
Corridos sung along the U.S.-Mexico border in the 19th and early 20th centuries, for instance, often dealt with conflict between the U.S. and Mexico that affected their daily lives.
artsedge.kennedy-center.org /content/3742   (1843 words)

  
 CIENCIA ergo sum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
While "corridos" of the Mexican Revolution present colourful, graphic depictions of real life heroes, villains, battles, tragedies and triumphs, their true message resides not in their "historic" content per se, but in the common ground shared by opponents in the struggle -their mutual love of the Mexican nation.
"Corridos" were an exemplary form of communication their words and lyrics flying on the wings of the human spirit from one end of the nation to the other, seemingly faster than a telegraph transmission.
Somewhere in the clash between corridos praising Villa as a revolutionary hero and those denouncing him as a traitor to the Revolution resides a glimmer of truth about the man and the "True Ideals of the Revolution" -a truth as compre-hensive, complex and contradictory as the soul of the Me-xican nation.
ergosum.uaemex.mx /marzo01/corridos.html   (4252 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: CORRIDOS
In its literary form the corrido seems to be a direct descendent of the romance, the Spanish ballad form which developed in the Middle Ages, became a traditional form, and was brought to the New World by Spanish conquistadors.
In Texas and the border region, the formal opening of the corrido is not as vital as the balladeer's despedida (farewell) or formal close.
The border corrido developed after 1848 and reached its peak at the height of cultural conflict between 1890 and 1910, at least ten years before the zenith of the Mexican corrido during the Mexican Revolution.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/CC/lhc1.html   (1407 words)

  
 Hojas Volantes: Jose Guadalupe Posada, the Corrido, and the Mexican Revolution
The Mexican corrido, printed in the form of a broadside ballad, is a manifestation of Mexican culture which incorporates image, music, and text to form a language understood by Mexicans of all classes.
The corrido served as an audiovisual method of communication: as people heard the music, they looked at the art and lyrics of the broadside.
At the age of fifteen, Posada was registered as a painter in a general census of the area of Aguascalientes.
www.swcp.com /~mmock/posada/posada.html   (2347 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Americas | Mexico's forbidden songs
Corridos, or ballads, have been a Mexican tradition - especially in the north of the country - for at least 100 years.
Corrido performers normally charge thousands of dollars, or tens of thousands of pesos, to write and perform such a piece.
Corridos, and narco corridos, were now "ubiquitous" in Mexico and had spread to California, Texas, Florida and other places with large Hispanic populations, according to Mr Wald.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/3552370.stm   (1099 words)

  
 Música fronteriza / Border Music
The corrido celebrates the exploits of Juan Nepomuceno Cortina, a Mexican from the Brownsville-Matamoros area, who, according to Paredes, "was the first man to organize a Texas-Mexican protest against abuses on the part of the Anglos who controlled the Border power structure after 1848" (1976, 22).
In the corrido, Juan Reyna is clearly portrayed as a hero, though not of the stature of a Joaquín Murrieta.
The corrido of interethnic conflict is not only a musico-literary genre truly indigenous to Southwest Border culture, but also an effective vehicle for articulating Mexicans' view of their intermittent strife with dominant Anglos.
www.lib.utexas.edu /benson/border/pena   (9915 words)

  
 Pacific News Service > News > A First Corrido on the Iraq War
A well-known singer of Mexican corridos, popular ballads that often deal with social issues, has authored what is thought to be the first song in the genre to deal with the war in Iraq.
Corridos are sometimes known for their biting commentary.
Rivera said that his corrido War for Peace, or Guerra por la Paz, was an elegy for the immigrant soldiers who died for their adopted country.
news.pacificnews.org /news/view_article.html?article_id=24b1977e26cc89b57a4fa134cfd85f2a   (1246 words)

  
 Narcocorrido, book on corridos, Mexican drug ballads, by Elijah Wald
Corrido Censorship, a timeline of efforts to ban the broadcast of narcocorridos.
This is the first full-length exploration of the contemporary Mexican corrido, blended with a travel narrative and digressions on Mexican and Mexican immigrant culture.
The corrido is one of the most popular music styles in the Latino market, both in the US and points south.
www.elijahwald.com /corrido.html   (1534 words)

  
 Tejano Corridos: During a century of political and economic injustice, narrative ballads sung by Texas Mexicans gave ...
Before the late 1920s, at least as far as the Texas corrido is concerned, the genuinely folkloric side tended to predominate while the commercial, popular culture side was limited to the occasional printed broadside and live performances by semi-professional musicians and singers.
This last corrido is instructive for the fluidity with which topical ballads were being produced during the late 1940s and on through approximately 1990.
The peculiar situation of the corrido in Texas in the late 1990s is the result of a confluence of ever shifting factors including technology, demographics, and economics as well as cultural trends and developments that all, in one way or another, revolve around the commercialization of the genre.
utexas.edu /opa/news/00newsreleases/nr_200006/nr_nicolopulos000629.html   (2608 words)

  
 neustadt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Following Paredes, he postulates that the corrido of Border resistance to Anglo-Capitalist encroachment both pre-dates and pre-figures the heroic stance and function of the truly epic corridos of the Revolution as a discourse of resistance to cultural, economic and political hegemony (26-9).
It is in the 1960s, however, that the corrido undeniably enters a period of renewal both as social event in the community and as a focus of commercial recording.
The heroic corrido may well live on in a purely residual state for certain Mexican-American groups in the United States, but for the people of the tierra caliente, among others, on both sides of the international frontier, the obituary pronounced on the heroic corrido in the 1950s has proved to have been premature indeed.
sincronia.cucsh.udg.mx /nicolopulos.html   (5726 words)

  
 Gale - Free Resources - Hispanic Heritage - Music - Cancion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The corrido and the canción are two important types of vocal music that occupy a special place in the musical lives of Mexican Americans, especially those living in the southwestern states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California.
Hero corridos were written until the 1920s in Texas and elsewhere, including such classics as "Joaquín Murrieta and Jacinto Treviño," but perhaps the most memorable is "El corrido de Gregorio Cortez", the story of a folk hero who fled for his life after killing an Anglo-American sheriff in self-defense.
A later victim corrido, "El 29 de Agosto" ("August 29"), written by the legendary folksinger-composer Lalo Guerrero, tells the true story of a police shooting of a Mexican American journalist during a protest rally in the 1970s.
www.galegroup.com /free_resources/chh/music/cancion.htm   (1243 words)

  
 ARTSEDGE: Turning Students into Songwriters: Tips on Writing Corrido Lyrics
While the subject matter of traditional historical corridos centered on actual events, corridos today are written about everything from tragic love affairs and the struggles of everyday life to catastrophes, heroes and villains, and major social and political events.
In the corrido tradition, the words are most important; they tell the story, and the music is secondary.
The rhyming patterns of the end rhymes in a stanza (rhyme schemes) vary from corrido to corrido, but the most common forms are ABCBDB in a six-line stanza or ABCB in a four-line stanza.
artsedge.kennedy-center.org /content/3744   (761 words)

  
 Women's Contribution to the Corrido Tradition
The corrido is arguably a derivative of the ballad genre, of primarily narrative content and represents an essential part of the Mexican folk tradition.
Women's participation in the corrido is typically limited to one of several archetypal roles, including the cruel mother, the
Whereas women in the past only heard an edited version of a corrido in a familial setting, today women are themselves not only singers, but creators and protagonists of this genre.
www.laits.utexas.edu /jaime/cwp2/eyg/introeng.html   (266 words)

  
 HispanicOnline - Hispanic Heritage Plaza 2002
A corrido, a popular and traditional Mexican genre, is a story told in song.
Composed by Frank Cantú, this WWII corrido tells the story of a soldier sent to war in Europe, and his experiences there as he anticipates being sent to the Pacific to fight the Japanese.
Lorenzo Ybarra Banegas was one of the survivors and wrote a corrido while he was held as a prisoner of war.
www.hispaniconline.com /hh02/history_heritage_sidebar_wartime_corridos.html   (249 words)

  
 El Corrido de Rosita Avirez
Corridos are tiny segments of Mexico and the Texas-Mexican border history and culture.
Each corrido serves as a window allowing the listener to peek into an enchanting time and place completely unfamiliar to the world in which he lives.
It is clear in the most recent versions of the corridos that Rosita asks for what she ultimately receives.
www.laits.utexas.edu /jaime/cwp2/ddg/leslie_rosita_alvirez.html   (719 words)

  
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The RV campground in Pauma Valley has been historically impacted by the presence of a small tribe of Indians, the Paumas, an Indian word meaning 'spring water'.
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www.campingfriend.com /RanchoCorridoRVResort?source=ctpa&strExchange=   (290 words)

  
 UA Poetry Center Announces Deadline for Bilingual Corrido Contest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Original corridos must be typed and should be sent or delivered to The Poetry Center, Corrido Contest, 1600 E. 1st St., P.O. Box 210129, Tucson, AZ 85721-0129.
The corrido is a Mexican folk ballad that has been popular in and historically relevant to the Mexican states of Jalisco, Michoacán and Guanajuato, as well as in the border region of Northern Mexico and the American Southwest.
As UA Professor Celestino Fernández notes in his study 'The Mexican Immigration Experience and the Corrido Mexicano,' "The corrido has become a powerful symbol of the value and historical development of the Mexican working class." Common themes of the corridos range from glorification of folk heroes and revolutionaries to immigration and natural disasters.
uanews.org /cgi-bin/WebObjects/UANews.woa/wa/MainStoryDetails?ArticleID=10279   (634 words)

  
 OhioLINK ETD: Waseen, Amber
Textual analyses of these works examine the variants between the lyrics of Corrido de “El sol” and Llamadas and the text of the corridos on which they are based.
Alone, these analyses show that the lyrics contributed to Chávez’s goals insofar as they were taken from the corrido, a form of mass-media that the Mexican people had already adopted as their own.
Through his polystylistic tendencies and sensitivity to the political climate, Chávez expanded the possibilities of the corrido, contributing to the genre’s adaptability as a soundtrack to current events.
rave.ohiolink.edu /etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1131048508   (357 words)

  
 The Mexican Revolution
This four CD set of historic corridos (ballads) provides a comprehensive overview of the events and key figures of the Mexican Revolution during this pivotal time in the Mexican Republic as sung by popular singers who recorded these renditions between 1904 and 1974 in both the United States and Mexico.
Disc IV (CD 7044) Post-Revolutionary Corridos and Narratives concludes the set with ballads, satirical lyrics and propagandistic songs spanning the years from the Cristero uprising of the late 1920s to the consolidation of revolutionary change represented by President Lázaro Cárdenas's expropriation of foreign holdings and nationalization of the petroleum industry in 1938.
This truly remarkable compendium of corridos is absolutely unique in its scope, historical representivity and authenticity, and the scholarly care and accuracy with which it has been compiled.
www.arhoolie.com /titles/7041.shtml   (795 words)

  
 /ARTS WEEKLY/FILM: Where Drugs, Immigration, and Corrido Music Collide
This is the situation in which Magdiel, a 23-year-old Mexican corrido musician from the state of Sinaloa finds himself in ''Al Otro Lado'' (To the Other Side), a 70-minute documentary whose world premiere screened at last month's Tribeca Film Festival here.
Entwined in the story of Magdiel is the story of corrido music, a genre with heavy polka influences whose origins date back more than 100 years and have traditionally served as a type of musical chronicle through which the voice of the people could be heard.
Despite, or perhaps because of, the fact that corrido music was until recently banned from Mexican radio stations for being perceived as celebrating drug trafficking and gangsterism, it has now become a 300-million-dollar industry in the United States and is the most popular form of Latin music on the market.
www.ipsnews.net /interna.asp?idnews=28709   (960 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Corridos About the Heroes [Import] [Box set] [Compilation]: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Corrido del Agrarista (Tillers of the Land), Pts.
The style is the corrido, a form of folkloric/political ballad that can be propagandistic as well as historical.
Uno escucha de pronto a unos músicos auténticos de esa era, con el sabor incomparable de la gente de campo, de la gente que gusta de llevar por los pueblos los mensajes y hechos de los acontecimientos que extremecieron a todos los Mexicanos.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000023U5   (835 words)

  
 Asics Corrido >> Cross Country Spike >> Running Unlimited
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Like all soft plate distance spikes, the Corrido is an excellent buy since it can be used for track in the spring, especially for indoor season if you have one.
Soft plate distance spikes are also great for newcomers to the sport, as they can be used for practically any event or distance- if you are not sure what events you may be doing, a soft plate spike is the way to go.
www.runningunlimited.com /asp/product.asp?pid=254   (201 words)

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