Poetry and Violence : The Ballad Tradition of Mexico's Costa Chica Paperback / softback
by John H. McDowell
Part of the Music in American Life series
Paperback / softback
Description
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.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages, 26 photographs
- Publisher:University of Illinois Press
- Publication Date:24/01/2008
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- ISBN:9780252075629
Information
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages, 26 photographs
- Publisher:University of Illinois Press
- Publication Date:24/01/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9780252075629
