I can add some trivia here. A corrido is a ballad - a song
that tells a story. The original title of my first book was
El Corrido de Rocky Ruiz, eventually changed to the Ballad of
Rocky Ruiz. Narco corridos are songs that tell stories about
the drug-smuggling business and the smugglers along the
Tex-Mex border. Quite a hard-boiled genre of music, actually,
and some of the musicians are just as hard as their
music
(e.g., Chalino Sanchez). I haven't read Corrido so can't say
anything about how that book uses the word.
Manuel Ramos
-----Original Message----- From: Michael Robison <
miker_zspider@yahoo.com> To:
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wed, 30 Nov 2005
08:39:48 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Corrido
Mark wrote:
Sounds like a pretty good book. I was wondering, though,
given the title, if it deals at all with Narco
Corridos.
*************** I'm not familiar with the Narco Corridos you
mention. It's not mentioned specifically in the book. There's
a short blurb on the first page explaining the significance
of the title. Something about corrido being a traditional
folk song or a dance or something like that. I'm at work and
my memory is fuzzy, but I'm thinking that generic terms for
song and dance are canta and baile.
I just thought of another good line in the book. One of the
characters is talking about Texas and says that Civil War
General Sherman said that if he owned Texas and hell, he'd
rent out Texas and live in hell.
miker
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