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corrido

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cor·ri·do  (k-rd)
n. pl. cor·ri·dos
A Mexican ballad or folksong.
[American Spanish, from Spanish, ballad, from past participle of correr, to run, from Old Spanish, from Latin currere; see kers- in Indo-European roots.]


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1993), 83; Alfred Arteaga, "The Chicano-Mexican Corrido," Journal of Ethnic Studies, XI[I (Summer 1985): 83-84; James L.
The lynching of persons of Mexican origin or descent in the United ... by Carrigan, William D. / Journal of Social History
Limon has observed, Paredes' With His Pistol in His Hand (1958) can be considered either as an ethnography that "is influenced formally by the Mexican ballad" or as a corrido "in the form of postmodern ethnography" (Dancing 82).
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Hernandez, director of UCLA's Chicano Studies Research Center and a Spanish professor, believes many people consider the corrido to be in poor taste and insignificant to everyday life, which is far from reality.
POPULAR REFRAINS REGIONAL MEXICAN MUSIC STRUGGLES TO GAIN ATTENTION ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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