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Journal of folklore research, 2012-09, Vol.49 (3), p.249-274
Ort / Verlag
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2012
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
In the first years of the new millennium, Mexico experienced a wave of violence associated with
the trafficking of illegal substances, and the deep-seated Mexican ballad tradition called the
corrido has served as a chronicle of these events, facilitating a popular discourse
couched in the sweet sonorities of Mexican song and bespeaking a heroic vision of history as
witnessed at the grass-roots level. Here, in what was first delivered as an address to the American
Folklore Society, I seek to get beyond the slick veneer of the narcocorridos,
ballads that celebrate and glamorize the trade, to sample a zone of commemorative practice where
narcocorridos share a space in the national consciousness with two additional manifestations of the
contemporary genre: corridos of trafficking, which tell drug-world stories in a level-headed manner,
and corridos of remediation, which seek to ameliorate the devastation wrought upon the Mexican
people by the drug wars of the early twenty-first century