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Author_John H. McDowell
ballad
ballad studies
ballad text
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communication
composer
corrido
corrido and violence
corrido artists
corrido ballad texts
corrido composers
corrido lyrics
corrido musicians
corrido performers
corrido social commentary
corrido themes
Costa Chica
critique of corrido scholarship
culture
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ethnography
ethnography of corrido
ethnography of Mexican music
ethnomusiaology
female corrido artists
female corrido performers
folk music
interview
interviews with corrido artists
interviews with corrido composers
Latin American music studies
male corrido artists
male corrido performers
Mexican borderlands music
Mexican folk music
Mexican folklore
Mexican music
Mexican music studies
Mexican popular music
Mexico
Mexico ethnography
music
music of Costa Chica
music of Mexico
music of Rio Grande Valley
performer
poetry
region
relationship
tradition
vernacular
violence
Product details
- ISBN 9780252075629
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 24 Jan 2008
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 along the Rio Grande border.
Detailed and rife with social and cultural implications, Poetry and Violence is a compelling commentary on violence as both human experience and communicative action.
John H. McDowell is a professor of folklore, director of Undergraduate Studies, and former director of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University. He is the author of "So Wise Were Our Elders": Mythic Narrative of the KamsÁ and editor of ¡Corrido!: The Living Ballad of Mexico's Western Coast.
