Between popular and mass culture: the corridos after the 1910 Mexican Revolution

Authors

  • Ana Cristina Borges

Abstract

The Mexican corrido achieved its maximum expression in the first decades of the twentieth century, being widely used to disseminate revolutionary events and ideals, especially among the illiterate peasant population. After the end of the Revolution, in 1920, there was a noticeable change regarding song appropriation: driven by the cultural and phonographic industry, there was a switch from oral and written tradition onto mass tradition. Faced with this new reality of the Mexican musical scene, marked by amarginalization of peasant culture relative to media production, adjustingthe corridos genre to to new times proved crucial for its survival. In particular, the Zapatista-themed southern corridos fell into disuse due to the impositions of the music industry before being revitalized by a discography project in the 1980s.

keywords: corridos; popular music; cultural industry.

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Author Biography

Ana Cristina Borges

Mestre em História pela Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU). Professora da Universidade de Uberaba (Uniube). Co-organizadora do livro Revoluções, sociedade e cultura nas Américas. Uberaba: Universidade de Uberaba, 2011.

Published

2016-12-27

How to Cite

Borges, A. C. (2016). Between popular and mass culture: the corridos after the 1910 Mexican Revolution. ArtCultura, 18(32). Retrieved from https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/artcultura/article/view/40108