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Poetry and Violence
Tallenna

Poetry and Violence

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.

Alaotsikko
The Ballad Tradition of Mexico's Costa Chica
ISBN
9780252075629
Kieli
englanti
Paino
454 grammaa
Julkaisupäivä
24.1.2008
Sivumäärä
272