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Topic: Narcocorrido

	e-misférica
		The so-called "narcocorrido" presents itself as a tremendous anachronism that has emerged on the Western hemisphere since the seventies, and especially during the eighties and nineties of the last century, a cultural form and a way of telling, singing and performing that has become widely notorious on both sides of the hemispheric border.
		The author is aware of this shortcoming; he concedes the ballads together with an enormous variety of topics and peripeties, a differential status which is circumscribed as an eventful movement of imaginatively entering and leaving the drug business, of simultaneously staging fascination, moral alert, and resignation to the avatars of unrestrained violence.
		Narcocorridos seem to serve a hidden cause, one whose 'realness' consists in an ongoing narrative and performative displacement of a collective desire in which the hemispheric inequalities as well as the most insane neoliberal promises have come to drastically resonate.
	hemi.nyu.edu /journal/1_1/review_herlinghaus.html (1187 words)

	Narcocorrido - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Corridos have long described bandits and other criminals, as well as illegal immigrants to the United States, and the poor and destitute, but the focus on drug smugglers is a relatively recent phenomenon.
		Various other currently famed artists like Chuy Vega, Los Tucanes de Tijuana, Beto Quintanilla(Who currently in a press conference denied publishing narcocorridos, but simply stating producing corridos, meanwhile explaining and determining the fact that he was not murdered, as rumored in his offical website), El As De La Sierra, and El Original de la Sierra.
		Narcocorrido, a book about the history of this style, including interviews with most of the foremost composers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Narcocorrido (296 words)

	PlanetPapers - Narcocorridos
		The audience that is for Narcocorridos says that they are culture driven songs of their native “pueblo”.
		A Narcocorrido is a type of song or music that often tells a story usually about drugs, alcohol and violence.
		During the Mexican Revolution, the Narcocorrido served as a form of oral history for those campesinos that were illiterate and couldn’t attend school or read a book.
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/4817.php (1115 words)

	Latin Style Mag / Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		The narcocorrido is a drug-themed ballad telling the history and culture of people who are—directly or indirectly—part of this underworld.
		Wald is the first journalist to report on the history of the corrido, from international superstars who sell millions of albums, to the rural singers documenting current events for their neighbors in the regions dominated by guerrilla war.
		NARCOCORRIDO is a noble and accurate portrayal of modern Mexican and Mexican-American cultures, as it is perceived by its music.
	www.latinstylemag.com /article.cfm?id=17 (497 words)

	Book review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Esta edición de "Narcocorrido" consta de cinco secciones, las que se subdividen en 18 partes, cimentando en su contenido la personalidad de cada uno de los compositores que se han dedicado a cultivar este género musical, con entrevistas, comentarios, viajes a diversas ciudades y zonas rurales de la República Mexicana.
		El autor Elijah Wald, demostró mucho valor al atreverse a investigar todo lo correspondiente a lo que se entiende por narcocorrido y otras clasificaciones que se aplican a este género, como son el corrido histórico, el corrido político, el corrido poético y otros más.
		Narcocorrido, es un libro muy interesante, digno de leerse.
	www.laprensa-sandiego.org /archieve/december14/REVIEW.HTM (257 words)

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		My favorite narcocorrido is one which discusses three animals being a parakeet (cocaine), a rooster (marijuana), and a goat (heroin).
		Most of the people who listen to narcocorridos are in their youth or in the very lowest class.
		As well the narcocorrido has begun to be shaped by mass media and thus has diverged away from its forerunner the corrido itself.
	www.geography.du.edu /sutton/Brownsville/Book_Reviews/Wilson_BR.doc (777 words)

	Metroland Online - Books
		In exploring the expanding outreach of Hispanic popular culture through its drug-industry-based folk music, Narcocorrido (the title itself is Spanish for “drug ballad”) underlines and clarifies the symbiotic relationship between Mexico and the United States, which Mexicans call el otro lado.
		The narcocorrido spans numerous permutations, from the accordion- and polka-flavored norte—o of Los Tigres to the rustic rap analog of Chalino Sanchez, a rough-hewn chronicler who, like his U.S. counterpart Tupac Shakur, was fatally shot, in 1992.
		Narcocorrido gives fresh meaning to “local” and “regional,” delineating a culture totally separate from that of el otro lado.
	www.metroland.net /back_issues/vol_25_no12/books.html (624 words)

	mumblage \| narcocorrido
		Narcocorrido’s cover is emblazoned with an accordion, a pair of machine guns and a quartet of marijuana leaves, superimposed on a ghostly map of the Texas/Mexico border.
		The "narcocorrido" has become the gangsta music of Spanish-speaking people on both sides of the Border, the domain of self-styled bad-asses who appear on their album covers toting guns and wearing ten-gallon hats straight out of a John Ford Western.
		The specimens of the modern corrido cited in Wald’s text (and there are many) are fascinating and often humorous in and of themselves, but they are most profoundly interesting taken together, as a muscular body of oral popular literature that is very much alive despite the encroaching Great Blandness of "globalized" culture.
	www.mumblage.com /wald.html (1830 words)

	AlterNet: Book Review: "Narcocorridos: A Journey Into the Music of Drugs, Guns, and Guerrillas"
		Part of the broader musical style known as norteno, popular in northern Mexico and Texas (where it's called tex-mex or tejano), narcocorridos are typically ballads sung to a polka or waltz beat, accompanied by accordions and guitars.
		Early in the last century, corridos were sung to describe the exploits of the great generals of the Mexican Revolution, and ever since they have served as a popular news service, telling of government corruption, the struggles of immigrants in El Norte or the rise of the Zapatista rebels in Chiapas.
		The narcocorrido, however, sings of the drug trafficker, the mariguero, the law and death.
	www.alternet.org /story/12125 (771 words)

	elijah wald interview 5/13/02
		EW: Again, there are parallels with rap; if you listen to the radio, you don’t hear a lot of rap, don’t hear a lot of narcocorridos, for exactly the same reason, which is that the people who don’t like it really hate it.
		If you mix one gangsta track in the middle of a general soul station, they’ll switch the dial, the same is true of the narcocorridos, if you’re doing like a Latin Music program and suddenly stick in Chalino Sanchez, you lose half of your audience.
		That was a big part of it, I was trying to write the book to say, this [music] that you may hear as perky polka is actually an awful lot more than that.
	www.murderdog.com /archives/corridos/corridos.html (2566 words)

	Narcocorrido / RootsWorld Book Review
		The corrido was the perfect song form for this, since it had been the traditional way of spreading news (as well as legends) among the countryside, and had been an important part of the propaganda battle in the Mexican Revolution.
		While not specifically narcocorridos, these are also "outlaw" ballads, in that they sing the praises of folks who cannot get their stories told in more official media.
		A special note must be made of the moral issues involved in singing the praises of vicious drug lords, peddling addictive chemicals and the associated violence and death that accompanies this trade, and Mr.
	www.rootsworld.com /reviews/narcocorrido.shtml (668 words)

	Tucson Weekly: Musical Underworld (April 25 - May 1, 2002)
		The fact that so many of their corridos featured drug references was no surprise to me; in parts of Mexico the narcocorrido is such an important subgenre that it has become the genre.
		The narcocorrido is a fascinating subject, worthy of scholarly treatises and lively participatory journalism.
		But you will find the narcocorrido's inspiration and influence: a blast of coke, offered as a friendly gesture, as part of almost every trip to the restroom.
	www.tucsonweekly.com /tw/2002-04-25/book.html (887 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Narcocorridos are a theme in the corridos section that has its background in the traficking of drugs and contraband.
		Narcocorridos have the same charactersitics of corridos but have morphed with new themes that are more realistic of society and the problems that the reality brings.
		A lot of figurative language is used in these Narcocorridos which is based on Mexcian culture and vocabulary.
	www.laits.utexas.edu /jaime/cwp4/ncg/homepage.html (372 words)

	Narcocorrido, book on corridos, Mexican drug ballads, by Elijah Wald
		Narcocorrido is a series of visits with corridistas, from the most popular narco writers to rural singers documenting current events in their communities.
		"Narcocorrido is more than an exposé of a musical genre and a contemporary problem, it is a journey into the complex nuances of Mexican social and cultural history.
		explores the rise of the narcocorrido in the early 1970s, with the groundbreaking hits of Los Tigres del Norte, the dominant band in the field for the last 30 years.
	www.elijahwald.com /corrido.html (1638 words)

	Help me find some good narcocorrido music! \| Ask MetaFilter
		The sound of narcocorridos isn't really that different from the sound of other corridos.
		He did mention that few narcocorrido artists actually produce pressed, professional CDs, which limits what you might be able to find.
		Narcocorridos are banned in the mainstream media, but you can find pirate CD compilations in Mexico.
	ask.metafilter.com /mefi/35485 (702 words)

	Boing Boing: Narcocorrido Culture
		The author's website also includes a bit of background on censorship of narcocorridos, though the timeline sadly seems to be cut off thanks to some wonky html.
		Update: An anonymous BoingBoing reader writes in to remind us that while narcocorridos are a recent product of Mexican pop culture, corridos per se are a form of folk art and oral history dating back more than a hundred years.
		Track 6 is sung from the perspective of a girl whos Dad got her into the business when she was 15 and now's she's big in Mafia.
	www.boingboing.net /2004/04/02/narcocorrido_culture.html (406 words)

	The Austin Chronicle : User Comments
		Narcocorrido: A Journey into the Music of Drugs, Guns, and Guerrillas By Elijah Wald Rayo, 333pp., $24 How to document history is a source of debate among scholars and critics....
		In Narcocorrido: A Journey Into the Music of Drugs, Guns, and Guerrillas, Elijah Wald uses all three approaches, creating a highly readable work.
		A longtime writer of roots and world beat music, Wald offers a travel narrative of narcocorrido sources, traveling from Sinaloa, Mexico, to Los Angeles and parts in between, searching out musicians and other insiders for their personal histories and insight.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/ReaderComments/?ContainerID=84332 (426 words)

	Narcocorrido, libro sobre el corrido mexicano
		Narcocorrido consiste en una serie de visitas con corridistas, desde los compositores más populares de canciones de narcos hasta cantantes campesinos generalmente desconocidos quienes documentan los acontecimientos de sus comunidades.
		Narcocorrido estará en venta en todas las mejores librerías, y también a Amazon, que paga un porcentaje al escritor si Uds usan este vínculo:
		narcocorrido, un poeta de la tierra que ha pasado más de 30 años documentando el mundo de la hampa mexicana.
	www.elijahwald.com /corridospan.html (1436 words)

	The Roots of the Narcocorrido - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		While it might seem a bit disconcerting to the average law-abiding citizen of the United States, narcocorrido has celebrated everything from the smuggling of contraband to drugs from south of the border.
		The Roots of the Narcocorrido offers a background, in essence, a way to understand why one culture might exalt what another condemns.
		The Roots of the Narcocorrido offers a nice backdrop for understanding the drug smuggler as folk hero, but it's also an enjoyable collection of music.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,3042050,00.html (435 words)

	Corrido - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is what scholars call the "decaying" stage of the genre, which tends to erase the stylistic or structural characteristics of "revolutionary" or traditional corrido, without a clear and unified understanding of its evolution.
		In mestizo-Mexican cultural area those three variants of corrido (transcultured romances, "Revolution corrido" and the modern version) are both alive and sung, along with sister narrative-popular genres, such as the "valona" of Michoacán state, the "son arribeño" of the Sierra Gorda (Guanajuato, Hidalgo and Querétaro states) and others.
		Narcocorrido, though its title refers to the modern style focusing on drug smugglers, includes a variety of information about the contemporary scene, including a page of topical corrido lyrics and one on the censorship of corridos in Mexico.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Corridos (1050 words)

	ttgapers store - USA - Narcocorrido: A Journey into the Music of Drugs, Guns, and Guerrillas - Elijah Wald - Product ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		El Narcotraficante: Narcocorridos and the Construction of a Cultural Persona on the U.S.-Mexican Border (Inter-America Series)
		This isn't a feminist disection of the Narcocorrido, of the Mexican male/female dynamic, or the moral differences between "Chicanas" & "true" Mexicanas.
		Though the narcocorrido phenomenon is thoroughly explored, the book is more than that.
	www.ttgapers.com /module-ttStore-product-asin-0060505109-locale-us.html (1177 words)

	Metroactive Music \| Los Tigres del Norte
		Together, the songs revealed a market and essentially created the narcocorrido, which is currently undergoing an explosion in popularity in Mexican music.
		The narcocorrido updated the traditional Mexican corrido, or ballad, which told of revolutionaries, bandits or a famous cockfight.
		Instead, narcocorridos tell of drug smugglers, shoot-outs between narcos and police, betrayals and executions.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/12.31.97/los-tigres-9753.html (2214 words)

	GANGSTA POLKA: MUSICAL NOTES FROM MEXICO'S LOWER DEPTHS
		Narcocorridos, Mexico's controversial music rage, are traditional ballads—corridos—glorifying the contemporary outlaws of the drug-smuggling underworld.
		In seeking out the roots of the narcocorrido, he had to visit some of the most dangerous turf of Mexico's drug wars.
		In the 1980s when the government tried to bulldoze the gravesite to build a new state capitol, local peasants put their bodies in front of the 'dozers until authorities broke down and donated the land for the chapel, near Culiacan's railway yards.
	www.morc.info /MORC_Narco.html (691 words)

	Amazon.com: The Roots of the Narcocorrido: Music: Various Artists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Pero quienes creen que es un invento reciente, se equivocan: la prueba es "The Roots of the Narcocorrido", un recopilatorio sobre los orgenes de este subgnero.
		"The Roots of the Narcocorrido" recoge canciones escritas entre 1880 y 1960, con grabaciones fechadas entre 1927 (el cupl "La cocana") y 2000 ("Corrido de Juan Garca").
		"The Roots of the Narcocorrido" es un disco imprescindible para entender por qu una cultura idolatra a sus delincuentes y los convierte en hroes populares.
	www.amazon.com /Roots-Narcocorrido-Various-Artists/dp/B0002XEDW6 (798 words)

	The Corridos Corridor
		In fact, Angel González's 1972 composition about a drug runner done in by his female partner was the spark that ignited a genre chronicling the exploits of traffickers and other outlaws on both sides of the Mexican-American border.
		But while gangsta rap is less than two decades old, narcocorridos lie squarely in the tradition of the 19th century corrido song form which gained wide popularity after the Mexican Revolution of 1910-20 with songs that eulogized the meteoric career of Pancho Villa.
		It's Mexican, and narcocorridos play a large enough role that one Los Angeles radio station now airs them around the clock.
	www.technobeat.com /COLUMNS/Corridos.html (2696 words)

	Amazon.com: Narcocorrido : Un Viaje Dentro de la Musica de Drogas, Armas, y Guerrilleros: Books: Elijah Wald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Wald is an engaging writer, and Narcocorrido a must-have for those wanting an introduction to the genre.
		Elijah Wald cuenta la fascinante historia de esta nueva versiÓn de una vieja tradiciÓn: la de los narcocorridos.
		Discursivo, vÍvido y perspicaz, Narcocorridos descubre una tradiciÓn musical llena de vitalidad mostrando de manera fascinante el lugar que ocupa el narcotrÁfico en la cultura mexicana.
	www.amazon.com /Narcocorrido-Dentro-Musica-Drogas-Guerrilleros/dp/0060937955 (1083 words)

	Okkervil River - Narcocorrido / The Hype Machine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
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	hype.non-standard.net /track/49873 (123 words)

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