About this title: In this book that is part travelogue and part musical history, Wald traces the roots of the contemporary Latin-American folk music known as corrido. While hitchhiking throughout the southwestern US and Mexico, Wald interviewed singers and fans of this style of music which often explores the lives of drug dealers and other outlaws, and often ...
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Satisfaction Guaranteed. Shipped quickly. 2001. Hardcover. 1st Ed. Used, very good. Very good overall with light to moderate wear. No dust jacket. read more
Description: Good. 0066210240 Ex-Library. Clean DJ in excellent condition under plastic protector. Ex-Library marking. Firm binding. Unmarked interior. read more
Description: Fine. 0060505109 Ships next business day. NEW/UNREAD! ! ! Text is Clean and Unmarked! --Be Sure to Compare Seller Feedback and Ratings before Purchasing--Has a small black ink mark on bottom/exterior edge of pages. May have light shelf wear to cover from storage, if any. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Rayo
Date Published: 2002-11-01
ISBN-13:9780060505103ISBN:0060505109
Description: Like New. Never Owned Or Read! May Have Light Shelf Wear And Or Publisher Mark. NEW CONDITION OTHER THAN PUBLISHERS REMAINDER MARK! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Rayo by HarperCollins
Date Published: 1st printing, 2001
Description: Very Good/Very Good hard cover. 8vo, boards, 333pp, illus. edgewear, scratches, rubbing, dust jacket. used book price inked over front end page. clean and tight text. music. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Rayo by HarperCollins
Date Published: 1st printing, 2001
Description: Very Good+/Very Good hard cover. 8vo, boards, 333pp, illus. edgewear, rubbing, dust jacket. used book price inked over front end page. clean and tight text. music. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York, NY, Rayo / Harper Collins, 2001
ISBN-13:9780066210247ISBN:0066210240
Description: Hardback, Near Fine in a Fine Minus to Near Fine DJ, 1st edition; remainder mark to bottom edge of page block, light wear to mylar protected DJ and DJ edges, tiny tear to top back edge by spine end. The author travelled extensively in Mexico and the American Southwest to find the roots of this musical genre which concerns itself with drugs, guns, and guerrillas, no names or markings, illustrated, 8vo., 333 pages., read more
"A great idea for a book and some rigorous efforts to track down the people and characters related to this genre of music - its clever double meanings, flowing verse and steadfast guitar strumming. This book has probably lost some of its kitsch because of the recent wave of narcoviolence along the border; Tijuana radio stations now refuse to play the corridos as they are a now in poor taste when juxtaposed with the wanton violence."
"Fantastic book, very interesting and informative, and has improved my spanish! Quite interesting how corridos mirror if not influence, politics, culture, drugs, guns, and guerillas. Page 187 has a wonderful local song about women!"
"got into this author after a multi page cover article in the LA Weekly about Chalino Sanchez who wrote hero myth songs about egotistical drug traffickers of Mexican extraction
learned what the 3 animals are what a cuerno de chiva is"
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