El Narcotraficante: Narcocorridos and the Construction of a Cultural Persona on the U.S.-Mexico Border

by Mark Cameron Edberg

Book Overview

Since the late 1970s, a new folk hero has risen to prominence in the U.S.-Mexico border region and beyond-the narcotrafficker. Celebrated in the narcocorrido, a current form of the traditional border song known as the corrido, narcotraffickers are often portrayed as larger-than-life "social bandits" who rise from poor or marginalized backgrounds to positions of power and wealth by operating outside the law and by living a life of excess, challenging...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029270206X
• ISBN13: 9780292702066
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"