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Narcocorrido: Directed by Ryan Prows. With Nicki Micheaux, Raúl Castillo, Michael Finn, Emilio Rivera. The drug ballad of a gravely ill border cop's reckless heist of a cartel shipment, sung by a desperate soul destroyed in her wake.
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This genre of music is the evolution of traditional corrido ballads of the Mexican-US border region, which stemmed from the 16th-century Spanish genre of romance. Among the earliest exponents of narcocorrido music were Los Alegres de Teran, who recorded many.In the 1980s, Rosalino "Chalino" Sánchez contributed to narcocorridos. Known throughout Mex...
Since music plays an important role and major influence in the narcoculture in Mexico, some songs have been tagged as "anthems" and banned from airplay in Mexico and parts of the United States. However, the banning has failed in Mexico because the music is still displayed and available on several radio stations in the United States, near the border...
Narcocorrido as money laundering scheme
In Mexico, parts of South America and some regions of the US south border it is common to hear the sudden appearance of "new artists", mainly in folk radio stations, who are not known in the music industry, have no previous career and with no explanation of where they come from. These music groups and singers start to appear consistently on radio, television and public broadcasts with a strong promotion of their concerts. This happens for a fixed amount of time, and in the same sudden way the...
Violence in narcocorrido industry
Between 2006 and 2008, over a dozen prominent Mexican musicians, many of them connected to the narcocorrido genre, were murdered. The violence came in the midst of the Mexican drug war. The most popular musicians killed were Valentín Elizalde and Sergio Gómez, the lead singer of Chicago-based Duranguense band K-Paz de la Sierra. In December 2007, both men were nominated posthumously for Grammy Awards in the banda category. On June 26, 2010, Sergio Vega, known as El Shaka, was gunned down in S...
Recently[when?], much of the new narco corridos music is being aimed directly at the American market, and produced mainly by Mexican-American entrepreneurs. Like many other concerts or sport events, many corrido artists are choosing American cities as venues for the ability to fill the concert halls at higher ticket prices than would be affordable ...
Films
Mexploitation films, especially the subgenre narcocinema, feature narcocorridos. Many of these feature appearances by famous narcocorrido singers and are rumored to be financed by drug lords themselves (although only a few cases of the latter have been proven). Some other films which feature narcocorridosinclude: 1. Al Otro Lado (2006, To the Other Side) 2. Narco Cultura (2013, Narco Culture)
Radio
On the radio, airplay of narcocorridos has increased significantly in recent years. Although illegal in Mexico, given the prohibition of lyrical content promoting crime and violence, US-based Spanish-speaking stations have promoted artists such as Larry Hernández, El Compa Chuy, and El Potro de Sinaloa, and songs such as "El Katch", "El Piloto Canavis" ("The Cannabis Pilot"), and "El Señor de la Hummer" ("The Man with the Hummer") have increased the genre's popularity. Listener requests have...
Television
1. In 2008, the Fox TV show America's Most Wanted mentioned the genre while depicting the case of a criminal wanted for murder and trafficking, who may be traveling back and forth between Mexico and the United States.[citation needed] 2. Breaking Bad season 2, episode 7 ("Negro y Azul"), opens with a narcocorrido by Los Cuates de Sinaloa, co-written by Vince Gilliganand inspired by the events depicted in the series. 3. In the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episode "Snakes" (2005), a freelance...
Academic articles and books
1. Astorga, Luis (1995). Mitología del traficante en México. México: UNAM / Plaza y Valdés. 2. Astorga, Luis (2005). "Corridos de traficantes y censura" (PDF). Región y Sociedad. 17 (32): 145–65. Archivedfrom the original on 2013-02-21. 3. Astorga, L. (1997). "Los corridos de traficantes de drogas en México y Colombia". Revista Mexicana de Sociolog. 59 (4): 245–261. doi:10.2307/3541131. JSTOR 3541131. 4. Cabañas, Miguel A (2008). "El narcocorrido global y las identidades transnacionales". Rev...
News items
1. Campbell, Howard (2005). "Drug trafficking stories: Everyday forms of Narco-folklore on the U.S.–Mexico border". International Journal of Drug Policy. 16 (5): 326. doi:10.1016/j.drugpo.2005.06.003. 2. Dávila, César Burgos (2011). "Música y narcotráfico en México. Una aproximación a los narcocorridos desde la noción de mediador" [Music and drug trafficking in México. An approach to narcocorridos from the notion of mediator]. Athenea Digital (in Spanish). 11 (1): 97–110. Archived from the or...
Juan Ramírez-Pimienta. Narcocorrido.wordpress.com- Early 20th century Mexico
21 mar 2014 · Narco Cultura: Directed by Shaul Schwarz. Narco Cultura (Spanish, English subtitles) takes viewers behind the scenes of narcocorridos, the most explosive and violent music subculture in America.
22 nov 2013 · The film intercuts Soto's investigations and Quintero's rise in the narcocorrido world. Hollywood premieres and sold out concerts share screen time with gruesome autopsies and mothers of cartel victims wailing behind police tape.
Year: 2011. Original title: Narcocorrido. Synopsis: The drug ballad of a gravely ill border cop's reckless heist of a cartel shipment, sung by a desperate soul destroyed in her wake.You can watch Narcocorrido (S) through flatrate on the platforms: ShortsTV Amazon Channel
Narcocorrido is a 2011 short crime action-drama film written and directed by Ryan Prows.
12 mag 2015 · Inspired by the norteño music that chronicles the drug trade, Narcocorrido is a gritty border thriller where all the characters fall victim in their quest for survival.
