Poetry and Violence: The Ballad Tradition of Mexico's Costa Chica [With CD]

by John H. McDowell

Book Overview

John H. McDowell provides an in-depth look at the Mexican ballad form known as the corrido, a body of poetry that draws from violence for its subject matter. Through interviews with male and female corrido composers and performers, plus a generous sampling of ballad texts, McDowell reveals a living vernacular tradition that chronicles local and regional rivalries and spawned the narcocorrido, ballads set in the drug trade and particularly popular...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252025881
• ISBN13: 9780252025884
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"