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Narcocorrido: A Journey into the Music of Drugs, Guns, and Guerrillas (edição 2001)

por Elijah Wald

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This book explores the world in which one of the oddest and most interesting trends in Latin music over the last 30 years has risen, the narcocorrido. Narcocorridos are Mexican ballads about the daring deeds of cross-border drug traffickers. Tracing the narcocorrido from its birth during the Mexican Revolution, up through its recent developments on the Mexican West Coast, the cradle of drug traffic. From there, the story moves to Los Angeles, where drug music began to blend with the corridos of Mexican immigrants and the concerns they have with living in the United States. The books narrative then heads across the Southwest to the Texas border region, where drug songs are still competing with more old-fashioned gunfighter ballads, then down through Mexico to the southern states of Michoacan, the latest big drug area. Finally, we are taken to Mexico City, with a traveling balladeer of the Zapatista revolution, and a meeting with Teodoro Bello, an illiterate genius who has not only become the most popular present-day corrido writer but the best-selling composer in Mexican history. Through this journey, we feel what how important the music is to the people who make and listen to it, while understanding the deep historical significance this music has on culture, both in Mexico and the United States.… (mais)
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Título:Narcocorrido: A Journey into the Music of Drugs, Guns, and Guerrillas
Autores:Elijah Wald
Informação:Rayo (2001), Edition: 1st, Hardcover, 352 pages
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From the book's dustjacket: "Wald traveled through much of Mexico and the southwestern United States (mostly hitchhiking, with a guitar on his back)in order to find notorious corridistas. From international superstars who sell millions of albums to rural singers documenting current evens for their neighbors in regions dominated by guerrilla war, Wald was able to visit these songwriters in their homes, trek up to mountain villages, explore the heartland of the Mexican drug traffic, and check out the scene in urban centers such as Los Angeles and Mexico City." (http://www.harpercollins.com/book/index.aspx?isbn=9780060505103)
One of the things that MOST strikes me about this book, is the whole "was able to visit" part -- bespeaking not only Wald's charm, good sense and determination, but the amazing generous-spiritedness of musicians working in an oft fraught-with-peril genre. 5 stars: along with being a fine piece of research, it was one of the first to address this rich area of social history (definitely NOT all-about-drugs), has influenced a number of other studies and perhaps the way popular Mexican/border culture is viewed in general. I'm looking forward to reading Wald's new book, Riding with Strangers: a Hitchhiker's Journey. (review at http://www.amazon.com/Riding-Strangers-Hitchhikers-Elijah-Wald/dp/1556526059/sr=... ( )
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This book explores the world in which one of the oddest and most interesting trends in Latin music over the last 30 years has risen, the narcocorrido. Narcocorridos are Mexican ballads about the daring deeds of cross-border drug traffickers. Tracing the narcocorrido from its birth during the Mexican Revolution, up through its recent developments on the Mexican West Coast, the cradle of drug traffic. From there, the story moves to Los Angeles, where drug music began to blend with the corridos of Mexican immigrants and the concerns they have with living in the United States. The books narrative then heads across the Southwest to the Texas border region, where drug songs are still competing with more old-fashioned gunfighter ballads, then down through Mexico to the southern states of Michoacan, the latest big drug area. Finally, we are taken to Mexico City, with a traveling balladeer of the Zapatista revolution, and a meeting with Teodoro Bello, an illiterate genius who has not only become the most popular present-day corrido writer but the best-selling composer in Mexican history. Through this journey, we feel what how important the music is to the people who make and listen to it, while understanding the deep historical significance this music has on culture, both in Mexico and the United States.

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